Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
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
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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 only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
