ForbesQuotes: Thoughts On The Business Of Life

1. Life isnt about getting and having, its about giving and being. Kevin Kruse
2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the
difference. Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. Florence Nightingale

6. You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Wayne Gretzky

7. Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times Ive been
trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my
life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart

9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth

10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. W. Clement Stone

11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. Kevin Kruse

12. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans. John Lennon

13. We become what we think about. Earl Nightingale

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by
the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. Charles
Swindoll

16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. Alice
Walker

17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha

18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
19. An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

21. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Steve Jobs

22. Winning isnt everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi

23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey

24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo
Picasso

25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the
shore. Christopher Columbus

26. Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

28. Whether you think you can or you think you cant, youre right. Henry Ford

29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out
why. Mark Twain

30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra

32. People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing. Thats why we
recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin

34. If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint
and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be
nothing. Aristotle

36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door
will be opened for you. Jesus
37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have
imagined. Henry David Thoreau

39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not
have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
Erma Bombeck

40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him,
and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington

41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
Ancient Indian Proverb
42. Believe you can and youre halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

43. Everything youve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair

44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life
is when men are afraid of the light. Plato

45. Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress.
Maimonides

46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the
key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didnt understand the
assignment, and I told them they didnt understand life. John Lennon

48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. Japanese Proverb

49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. Confucius

51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world. Anne Frank
52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu

53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away. Maya Angelou

54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

55. If youre offered a seat on a rocket ship, dont ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg

56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have
the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and
methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. Aristotle

57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb

58. You cant fall if you dont climb. But theres no joy in living your whole life
on the ground. Unknown

59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at
whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie

60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine

62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington

63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we
must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci

64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our
possibilities become limitless. Jamie Paolinetti

65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no
one to blame. Erica Jong

66. Whats money? 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
67. I didnt fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin
Franklin

68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear
of failure. Bill Cosby

69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert
Einstein

70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who
is doing it. Chinese Proverb

71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach

72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

73. You become what you believe. Oprah Winfrey

74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Vincent van Gogh

75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are
empty. Unknown

76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do
for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. Ann Landers

77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with
them, and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren

78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Farrah Gray

79. The battles that count arent the ones for gold medals. The struggles within
yourselfthe invisible battles inside all of usthats where its at. Jesse Owens

80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. Sir Claus Moser

81. I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up, this
diminishes fear. Rosa Parks

82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
83. If you look at what you have in life, youll always have more. If you look at
what you dont have in life, youll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey

84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke
of luck. Dalai Lama

85. You cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya
Angelou

86. Dream big and dare to fail. Norman Vaughan

87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.

88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Teddy Roosevelt

89. If you do what youve always done, youll get what youve always gotten.
Tony Robbins

90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem

91. Its your place in the world; its your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life
you want to live. Mae Jemison

92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try.
Beverly Sills

93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses

95. The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going to stop me. Ayn
Rand

96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane
takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

97. Its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. Abraham
Lincoln

98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, Im possible! Audrey

101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs

102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Zig Ziglar