When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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 true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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
