Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
