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
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
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
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
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
Bob Dylan
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Joseph Addison
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
Henry David Thoreau
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
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
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
Gandi
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist