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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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 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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
