You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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 goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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 may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
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
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
