We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
Barack Obama
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
Carlos Castaneda
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
Martha Beck
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
Bob Dylan
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
Steven Schussler
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
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
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
Maya Angelou
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee