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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
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
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
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
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"
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
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"
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African 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
