Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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"
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
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
