It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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"
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– 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
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
