Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

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

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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"

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

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

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde