Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
Ted Leonsis
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
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
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
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh
Ripeness is all.”
William Shakespeare
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
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"
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
The Dalai Lama
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
Barack Obama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
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 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