Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
If you would create something, you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
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 task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
