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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
“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.
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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 judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
