Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
