Quotes by some remarkable people to inspire thriving careers and lives.
You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
- Confucius
The greatest people are self-managing. They don't need to be managed at all. What they need is a common vision, and that's what leadership is.
- Steve Jobs
Go and find people who want to work toward your vision because it's something they really believe in, too.
- Steve Jobs
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis
People ask you, “Where do you work?” and “What do you do?” They never ask you, “What are you building?”
- Jim Clifton
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Mistakes aren't a necessary evil. They aren't evil at all. They are the inevitable consequences of doing something new... and should be seen as valuable.
- Ed Catmull
If you feel like the other guy did something for you, that's hospitality.
- Danny Meyer
A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
- Joe Vitale
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
- Jim Rohn
Great things never came from comfort zones.
- Neil Strauss
If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- Jack Kerouac
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
- Sigmund Freud
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
- Steve Jobs
A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
- Les Brown
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
- Laurence J. Peter
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- Jack London
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is the sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
- Maya Angelou
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
You have to be a good individual first before you can be a good team player.
- David Goggins
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
- David Ogilvy
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
- Euripides
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Rudyard Kipling
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
- John C. Maxwell
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- William James
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
- James Yorke
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
- Jim Rohn
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- Albert Einstein
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
- Gloria Steinem
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
- Oscar Wilde
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
- Isaac Asimov