Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
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 awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
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
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
