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
