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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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 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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
