The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Jack Kerouac

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

– Robert Frost

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

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

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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 quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott