The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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 dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt