Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
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
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
