Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
