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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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 only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
