Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
