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
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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"
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
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"
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
