The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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"
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
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
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
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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 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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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 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"
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
