The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. – Corra Harris

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. – Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. – Denis Diderot

Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about. – Lynn Johnston

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. – Homer

Business quotes

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields

Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. – Albert Einstein

We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr.

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. – Baltasar Gracian

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. – Nelson Mandela

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. – Herb Caen

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. – Katharine Graham

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. – Moliere

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cleverness is not wisdom. – Euripides

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. – John Muir

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.  A happiness weapon.  A beauty bomb.  And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.  It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.  Floating down to earth – boxes of Crayolas.  And we wouldn’t go cheap, either – not little boxes of eight.  Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.  With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.  And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.  – Robert Fulghum

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.  Most persons do not see the sun.  At least they have a very superficial seeing.  The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.  The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.  – Ted Morgan

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education.  A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.  - Martin H. Fischer

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.  – Leonard L. Levinson