Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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 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
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
“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.
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
