We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
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
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. DeMille
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Goldie Hawn
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
Eve Ensler
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
Tao Te Ching
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Joseph Addison
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
The journey is the reward.”
Greg Norman
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
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"
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
Martha Beck
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
Optimism rules