To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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 not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
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
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
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
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
