Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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"
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you would create something, you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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"
