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
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"
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
“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.
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
