I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
