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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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"
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
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
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
