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

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Robert Frost

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Albert Einstein

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Anita Roddick

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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"

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Thomas Edison

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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 you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Helen Keller

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

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

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

– Marcel Proust

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“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.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley