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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
