“I’m a big believer in creating your own opportunity if no one gives you one.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Use the words ‘we’ and ‘us’ when referring to your business. Never use ‘I’ and ‘me.’ It sounds egotistical.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You have only one mind and one body for the rest of your life. If you aren’t taking care of them when you’re sixteen or seventeen, it’s like leaving that car out in hailstorms and letting rust eat away at it.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“When you are generous, you will always feel good about yourself. If life ends up being generous in return, as it usually does with giving people, then you will have greater joy.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You never climb a mountain to get to the middle; you climb it to get to the top.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Success comes from doing something extraordinary with passion and intensity.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Most people sweat it out for years and encounter some degree of humiliation and failure along the way.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“His attitude taught me to define failure as not trying something I want to do instead of not achieving the right outcome.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“An important quality in my field is emotional stability. You have to be able to think independently.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Qualities of good character and integrity make an enormous difference in achieving success.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of…”— Martin Luther King Jr., old.seattletimes.com
“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door.”— Anonymous (Caputo's Ex-Girlfriend), previously.tv
“When people Instagram inspirational quotes it makes me feel like their lives are falling apart.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“don’t worry, you’re still in the ‘early life’ part of your wikipedia page.”— setheverman, setheverman.tumblr.com
“At that moment a voice came over me and said, Look up, get up, and don't ever give up. You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they did not measure up or wanted to quit, you tell them to look up, get up and don't ever give up.”— Michael Irvin, espn.com