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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
Warren Buffett
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
Thomas Carlyle
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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"
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
The Dalai Lama
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
The journey is the reward.”
Greg Norman
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
Tony Robbins
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
Steven Schussler
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
Anita Roddick
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
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
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