The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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"
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
