You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
