A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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"
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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"
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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 you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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"
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
