In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
