Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
