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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
