The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
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"
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
