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
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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 best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
