This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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"

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Victor Kiam

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

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

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Ajahn Chah

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Carlos Castaneda

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

– Jesse Jackson

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– Martha Beck

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

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

– African Proverb

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

– Eve Ensler

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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