Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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 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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If you do not tell the truth about yourself , you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
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
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
