Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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"
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
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
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 journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
