Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– 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
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
