Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
