It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
Anita Roddick
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
JFK
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
Tao Te Ching
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
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
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
Basil King
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
Steve Jobs
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Never cut what you can untie.”
Joseph Joubert