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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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"
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
