Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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"
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
