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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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"
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
