Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
