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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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"
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
“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.
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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"
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
