The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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 think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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 easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
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
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
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
