To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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"
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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"
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
