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
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
