Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
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
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
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
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
