To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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"
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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"
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
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"
