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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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"
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
