Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

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

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