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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
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"
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
