You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
