Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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 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"
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
