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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
John Lennon
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
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"
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
John F. Kennedy
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
Steven Schussler
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
Steve Jobs
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
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
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Goldie Hawn
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
Frederic Nietzsche