I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
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"
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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"
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
