Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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 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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
