Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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"
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
