Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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"
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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"
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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 great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
