The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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 wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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"
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
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"
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
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
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"
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
