If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
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
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
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"
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
