A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
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
Passion makes perfect.”
Eugene Biro
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
Dr. Ben Carson
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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
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
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
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
“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.
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
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
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
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
Audre Lorde
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
Henry David Thoreau
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter