Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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 world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
