An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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"
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
