98 Inspiring and Thought Provoking Quotes for Entrepreneurs

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1 98 Inspiring and Thought Provoking Quotes for Entrepreneurs 1. What we think and feel, we create! We create what we believe! 2. What worries you masters you. - Haddon W Robinson 3. Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't. Napoleon Hill 4. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau 5. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and politician. 6. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure! Bill Cosby 7. The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. - Celestine Chua 8. While most are dreaming of success, winners wake-up and work hard to achieve it! 9. You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. Lou Holtz 10. Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, Get the hell out of my way, I ve got things to do Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way 12. You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you. Bob Proctor 13. It doesn t matter where you are coming from, all that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy 14. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius kirstin@topresultscoaching.com Page 1 of 5 TopResultsCoaching

2 15. The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. - Mike Dooley 16. Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln 17. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson 18. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change! Wayne Dyer 19. You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. - Oprah Winfrey 20. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. - Mike Murdock 21. Regardless of whom you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown 23. This is your world, shape it or somebody else will. Gary Lew 24. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.- Joel Barker 25. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France 26. When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." Believe you can and you're halfway there!! - Theodore Roosevelt 28. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it s a matter of choice. - William Jennings Bryan 29. Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what. Spryte Loriano 30. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love 31. We don t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw 32. What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter. - Peter Drucker 33. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who usually do. Steve Jobs 34. Work like you don t need money, love like you ve never been hurt, and dance like no one s watching! The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. Tony Robbins 36. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard 37. Your time is limited, so don t waste it living someone else s life. Don t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people s thinking. Don t let the noise of other s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs 38. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself. - Brittany Renee 39. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going! Jim Rohn 40. When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place! Never let success go to your head and never let failure go to your heart. Jeremy Chin 42. The elevator to success is out of order. You ll have to use the stairs. One step at a time. - Joe Girard 43. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley kirstin@topresultscoaching.com Page 2 of 5 TopResultsCoaching

3 44. Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. - Winston Churchill 45. Life isn t about waiting for the storm to pass, it s about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene 46. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it. - Robert Anthony 47. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide. - Bernard Kelvin Clive 48. The highest reward for a person's success is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin 49. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard 50. In order to succeed, your desire for Success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby 51. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Tony Robbins 52. Life should be embraced, not merely endured. - Karen Chaffee 53. People often say that motivation doesn t last. Well, neither does bathing.. that s why we recommend it daily.- Zig Ziglar 54. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. - Douglas Everett 55. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly! - Robert F. Kennedy 56. It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.- Denis Waitley 57. I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith and now I'm marrying my dreams I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion. - Jacques Mayol 59. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you re always in the same place. - Nora Roberts 60. For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don t believe, no proof is possible. - Joseph Dunninger 61. It is your attitude at the beginning of a task more than anything else that will determine your success or failure. - William James 62. Our thoughts are causes You sow a thought, you reap an action You sow an action you reap a habit You sow a habit, you reap a character You sow a character, you reap a destiny It all starts with a thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 63. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robertson 64. The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself! - Rita Mae Brown 65. Success in life is not determined by how we are doing compared with others, but by how we are doing compared with what we are capable doing Do more than exist live Do more than touch feel Do more than look observe Do more than read absorb Do more than hear listen kirstin@topresultscoaching.com Page 3 of 5 TopResultsCoaching

4 Do more than listen understand. - John H Rhoades 67. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 68. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Ziglar 69. Change and growth take place when a person challenges himself & dares to become involved with experimenting with life! Henry Miller 70. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle 71. Every action taken affects your world as greatly as every action NOT taken The best way to predict the future is to create it! - Abraham Lincoln 73. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.- Albert Schweitzer 74. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other! - Douglas Everett 75. One of the best things about the human mind is this: It can look at the same things from totally different perspectives. That's important because whatever perspective is chosen, the relative actions will follow The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind! William James 77. You are in the driving seat...you decide the direction your life takes you! People form habits and habits form your future success or failure Dont wait for opportunities to come your way, find your own opportunties! Fortune favors the brave! What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.- Ralph Waldo Emerson 81. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand 82. We regret more things in life that we didn t do than the things that we did do. Take a step closer to what you want The 3 C's of life: Choices, Chances and Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change Focus (know exactly what you want ) and concentration (dedicate yourself to do it) are keys to success Watch your thoughts, they become words Watch your words, they become actions Watch your actions, they become habits Watch your habits, they become character Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! - Lao-Tze 86. Life isn t about finding yourself. Life s about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw 87. You will never how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. - Bob Marley 88. The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.- Unknown 89. The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. - Unknown 90. Obstacles can t stop you. Problems can t stop you. Most of all, other people can t stop you. Only you can stop you. J. Gitomer kirstin@topresultscoaching.com Page 4 of 5 TopResultsCoaching

5 91. A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability -if you try even a little bit- to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. - Abraham-Hicks 92. How you think is as important as what you think 93. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts. 94. Whether you think you can or think you can t you are right. Henry Ford 95. The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. 96. You can t get to a place that you don t believe exists. Unknown 97. (Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success. BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is ( ) x 0 = Failure Unknown 98. The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek. - Celestine Chua To your success! kirstin@topresultscoaching.com Page 5 of 5 TopResultsCoaching

52 Weeks Of Wisdom. Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland WEEK ONE

52 Weeks Of Wisdom. Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland WEEK ONE WEEK ONE Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else Judy Garland WEEK TWO Your time is limited; don t waste it living someone else s life. Don t be trapped