The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
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
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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"
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 it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
