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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
