Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
“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.
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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"
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
