Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Passion makes perfect.”
Eugene Biro
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
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
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
Martha Beck
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
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
Steve Jobs
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
Steven Schussler
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
Henry David Thoreau
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
L.J. Smith
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
Optimism rules
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
Anna Quindlen
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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 longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus