The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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"
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
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
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
