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
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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
Lao Tzu
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
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
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
Tao Te Ching
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
Steven Schussler
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Magical
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
Steven Schussler
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Goldie Hawn
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb