The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
“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.
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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"
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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 you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
