Since most of our clients are, like us, entrepreneurs, artists, and/or small business owners, I wanted to share some of my favorite inspirational quotes that help me get through the particularly challenging bumps in the road or just the tough days.
If you have a favorite one to share, please send me a note and I'll add it!
ON BUSINESS & SUCCESS
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, invite them to get it from you, and when they show up, bill 'em! -- Stuart Wilde
When you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other. Therefore, if you decide to take responsibility for your circumstances, you automatically tap into the power to change them. -- Dr Stephen R Covey
We are not retreating, we're just advancing in another direction. -- General George S Patton
The talent is in the choices. -- Robert De Niro
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unattained side effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. -- Viktor Frankl
A goal is nothing more than a dream with a deadline. -- Joe L Griffith
Don't ask what the world needs - ask what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Martin
I never ran 1,000 miles. I could never have done that. I ran one mile 1,000 times. -- Stu Mittleman (world record holder for ultra distance running)
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple: fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and do it! -- Henry Ford
Don't wish it was easier - wish you were tougher. -- Jim Rohn
ON PROSPERITY & ABUNDANCE
All men dream, but not all equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, and make things happen. -- TE Lawrence
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can get it. -- Robert Fritz
Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw
Who dares, wins. --Motto of the British Special Forces
If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money. -- Jim Rohn
You can't help the poor by becoming one of them. -- Abraham Lincoln
The difference between poor people and rich people is easy. The poor spend their money and then save what's left over; the rich save their money and then spend what's left over. -- Jim Rohn
If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it. -- Charles Givens
ON GENERAL INSPIRATION
What is now proved was once impossible. -- William Blake
The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
The voice inside your head is not the voice of God. It just sounds like it thinks it is. -- Cheri Huber
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. -- James Allen
Thoughts become things. Choose the good ones! -- Mike Dooley
ON HAPPINESS
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Goethe
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -- Robert Byrne-- Michel de Montaigne
All the money in the world is spent on feeling good. -- Ry Cooder
Today's gratitude buys tomorrow's happiness. -- Michael McMillian
