An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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"
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
