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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
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
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
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
