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
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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"
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
