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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
