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Nancy E. Wigal, Owner, Search Engine Academy Washington DC

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

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

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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"

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

“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.

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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