To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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"
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
