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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
