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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Carl Rogers

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Nelson Mandela

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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 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

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Albert Schweitzer

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust