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Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Erica Jong

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer