He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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"
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
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
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
