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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
“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.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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 your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
