Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
