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
