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
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– 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.
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
