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