Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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 sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
