There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

– Steve Jobs

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Victor Kiam

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Joseph Cambell

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

– Jesse Jackson

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Carl Rogers

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

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– African Proverb

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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"

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

– E.B. White

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam