Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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 follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
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
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
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 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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
