We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
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
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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"
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
