When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
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 great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
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
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
