We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
