Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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"
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
