Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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"
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
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
