In a previous post (Traits of an Entrepreneur), I listed the 18 traits of an entrepreneur which are: Creative, Perseverance, Self-Confident, Intuitive, Independent, Self-Motivated, Optimistic, Focused, Forward-Looking, Decisive, Enterprising, Disciplined, Cooperative, Results Oriented, Energetic, Persuasive and Organized. This list of quotations highlight these 18 characteristics.
1. “Creative people are at their most productive when they
appear to be doing nothing.”
--Tim Askew
2. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it
lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
--Franklin
D. Roosevelt
3. “The creative urge is the demon that will not accept
anything second rate.”
--Agnes de
Mille
4. “When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a
microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like
the most gigantic idiot on earth.”
--Cynthia
Heimel
5. “When you are happy, you are free; when you are free, you
can be creative; when you are creative, your divine self comes out.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
6. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly.”
--Robert F.
Kennedy
7. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the
paint you can on it.”
--Danny
Kaye
8. “I am seeking; I am striving; I am in it with all my
heart.”
--Vincent
van Gogh
9. “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant
striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
--Denis
Waitley
10. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to
find out they've got a second.”
--William
James
11. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly
find out how far one can go.”
--T.S.
Eliot
12. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the
little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
--Mary Anne
Radmacher
13. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
--John
Quincy Adams
14. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”
--Jack
Dempsey
15. “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming
them is what makes life meaningful.”
--Joshua J.
Marine
16. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get
tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
--Newt
Gingrich
17. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
--Napoleon
Bonaparte
18. “Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no
matter how much heat or pressure they faced.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
19. “The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain
that precedes the victory.”
--Karen
Bliss Livingston
20. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance,
all things are attainable.”
--Thomas
Foxwell Buxton
21. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our
thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
--Buddha
22. “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the
universe against me.”
--Ralph
Waldo Emerson
23. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and
confidence.”
--Mark
Twain
24. “Confidence comes not from always being right but from
not fearing to be wrong.”
--Peter T.
McIntyre
25. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
--Eleanor
Roosevelt
26. “Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.”
--Mary
O'Hare Dumas
27. “We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us,
and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”
--Shakti
Gawain
28. “Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind.”
--Albert
Einstein
29. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
--Steve
Jobs
30. “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think
for yourself.”
--Doris
Lessing
31. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of
a second-rate version of somebody else.”
--Judy
Garland
32. “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to
myself.”
--Michel de
Montaigne
33. “Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did
she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
--Nicolas
Chamfort
34. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become
so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
--Albert
Camus
35. “It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
--Voltaire
36. “I am pushed by those who believe in me, but motivated
by those who don't.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
37. “Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not
motivated.”
--Lou Holtz
38. “Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as
genius.”
--Benjamin
Disraeli
39. “It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want
to.”
--Annie
Gottlier
40. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
--Colin
Powell
41. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it
doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.”
--Lucille
Ball
42. “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.”
--Nicholas
Murray Butler
43. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist see the opportunity in every difficulty.”
--Winston
Churchill
44. “Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet
committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
45. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
--Alexander
Graham Bell
46. “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to
victory.”
--Arthur
Golden
47. “Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot
of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.”
--Jim Rohn
48. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off your goal.”
--Henry
Ford
49. “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy
concept.”
--Ansel
Adams
50. “The successful warrior is the average man, with
laser-like focus.
--Bruce Lee
51. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
--Stephen
Covey
52. “Worrying about things you cannot control is folly.
Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes
much simpler.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
53. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the
whole aim and end of human existence.”
--Aristotle
54. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a
target no one else can see.”
--Arthur
Schopenhauer
55. “Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.”
--Albert
Einstein
56. “If you don't have a vision for the future, then your
future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
--A.R.
Bernard
57. “If you are not a trend setter, at least be able to
exploit the ones you see.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
58. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the
children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
--Napoleon
Hill
59. “The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.”
--Norman
Mailer
60. “When you run away from fear, it grows. When you move
toward fear, it recedes. As you move forward, despite all the anxieties and
uncertainties you feel, you'll develop courage.”
--John
Amatt
61. “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that
will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the
play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
--Cecil
Beaton
62. “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive one.”
--Ralph
Waldo Emerson
63. “The perfect day: going to bed with a dream and waking
up with a purpose.”
--Unknown
64. “If you don't know where you are going, any road will
get you there.”
--Lewis
Carroll
65. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to
make it happen.”
--Ralph
Waldo Emerson
66. “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is
the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing
you can do is nothing.”
--Theodore
Roosevelt
67. “No matter how much we think about something, in the
end, the decision is made on how we feel.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
68. “A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who
decide to do something about them now.”
--Nolan
Bushnell
69. “No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect;
if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.”
--William
Teller
70. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises.”
--Demosthenes
71. “It never ceases to amaze me how the universe will
conspire to help people succeed when they pour their hearts into an endeavor”
--Clayton
Christopher
72. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
--Henry
David Thoreau
73. “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but
it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
--Buddha
74. “Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is
a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”
--Julie
Andrews
75. “People think I am disciplined. It is not discipline. It
is devotion.”
--Luciano
Pavarotti
76. “Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with
the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”
--Woodrow
Wilson
77. “Leadership conceives and articulates goals that lift
people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of
objectives worthy of their best efforts.”
--John
Gardner
78. “Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to
attain uncommon results.”
--Andrew
Carnegie
79. “The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to
let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.”
--Jean de
La Bruyère
80. “The greatest compliment you can receive is being
counted on.”
--John C.
Maxwell
81. “There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy
into your ally.”
--Jeffrey
Fry
82. “Success is not about the income, it is about the
outcome.”
--Jay Goltz
83. “Success represents the 1% of your work that results
from the 99% that is called failure.”
--Soichiro
Honda
84. “Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the
right direction.”
--Al
Bernstein
85. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.”
--Norman
Vincent Peale
86. “Profit is the result of risks wisely selected.”
--Frederick
Barnard Hawley
87. “You will recognize your own path when you come upon it
because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever
need.”
--Jerry
Gillies
88. “I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what
achievement lies ahead of me.”
--Zane Grey
89. “Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by
spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
--Sarah
Bernhardt
90. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
--Benjamin
Franklin
91. “Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs
the energy and the will to win.”
--Denis
Waitley
92. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be
believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.”
--Edward R.
Murrow
93. “Business today consists in persuading crowds.”
--T. S.
Eliot
94. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the
vision.”
--John C.
Maxwell
95. “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather
than despair convincing.”
--Raymond
Williams
96. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized
life.”
--Immanuel
Kant
97. “A true leader follows the dreams of those he leads.”
--Douglas
Whatley
98. “Our minds become magnetized with the dominating
thoughts we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, the
people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our
dominating thoughts.”
--Napoleon
Hill
99. “Out of clutter, find simplicity; out of discord, find
harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
--Albert
Einstein
100. “Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes
great things decay.”
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