We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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"
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
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
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
