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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
“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.
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
