The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
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
