There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– 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
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
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 try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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 be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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 best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
