If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
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
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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
“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.
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
