There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
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
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
