Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
