The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
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
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
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
