What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
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 aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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"
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
