“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.
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
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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"
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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 to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
