The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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 do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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"
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
