We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
“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.
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
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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"
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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 man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
