Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

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

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

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

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod