Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
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
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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 not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
