It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– 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
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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"
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
