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
