If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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 true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
