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
