Inspiring Quotes for Life & Business

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Courtesy of editor and UBC director John Horn

“Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. And in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

Courtesy of HR consultant Christine Goertz

"Family. Religion. Friendship. The three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." – Monty Burns

Courtesy of talent agent Rich Vigurs

"If you rest, you rust." – Helen Hayes

Courtesy of editor and college instructor Tanya Bennett

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
– Andrew Carnegie

Courtesy of financial services manager Maria Kouyoumijian

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right." – Henry Ford

Courtesy of sales director Jon Holtby

"Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic." – Seth Godin

Courtesy of content director Simon Gerard

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtesy of lawyer Mark V. Lewis

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." – Mother Teresa

"You miss 100 per cent of the shots you never take."
– Wayne Gretzky

Courtesy of retail manager Jennifer Ford

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." – Aristotle

Courtesy of communications specialist Chris Keenan

"Do or do not. There is no try." – Yoda

Courtesy of recruitment manager Jessica Rozitis

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." – Bertie Charles Forbes

Courtesy of staffing and recruiting CEO Gordon Skillen

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Courtesy of communications and PR specialist MaryLou Wakefield

"The secret of success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" – Winston Churchill

Courtesy of consultant Laura Mack

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

Courtesy of business advisor Patricia Lambert

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." – Frank A. Clark

Courtesy of finance coordinator Jackie Hendrix

"The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing."
– Benjamin Franklin

Contributed by marketing director Jen Schaeffers

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." – Samuel Johnson

Contributed by business consultant Jan Snell

"I will not allow others to walk around in my mind with their dirty feet." – Gandhi

Contributed by educator Randy Kennett