It has been said, the entrepreneurial journey is traveled on a long and lonely road. Studies have also shown, this road we are traveling can sometimes lead to depression and/or health issues. When you’re starting or growing a business – the struggle is REAL; if you weren’t already inspired, you could never do what you’re doing. But sometimes, a little outside inspiration might be just what you need to give you a different perspective, or to awaken a ‘knowledge nugget’ you already possess, that has fallen asleep inside of you.
Either way, a small dose of inspiration can add a ray of sunshine to your day. Below, I’ve compiled 15 quotes that always make me smile. Maybe one of them is just what you need.
- “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” – Marissa Mayer
- “If you ask with kindness in your voice and in your heart, ‘How may I serve you?’ the Universe’s response will be ‘How may I serve you as well?’ – Dr Wayne Dyer
- “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” – Colonel Sanders
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Twenty years from now you will be more dissapointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And everytime you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
8. “As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of your own thoughts, you hold the key to every situation. You contain within yourself that transforming power by which you make yourself what you will.” – James Allen
9. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
10. “Brands that respect you as a person and make you feel like you are you, and that you, rather than they, have control over you, will be the ones who are successful.” – Martha Lane Fox
11. “I’ve been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.” – Madonna
12. “In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they are successful, and obviously sometimes they’re not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.” – Anna Wintour
13. “The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.” – Dr Wayne Dyer
14. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
15. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
May 5, 2017 @ 5:29 pm
I love Colonel Sanders’ quote Taylor. We see his KFC’s ALL OVER the world. More than McD’s in many spots. The guy built a monstrous empire that outlived him and continues to expand based on that very idea. He did his best to find the secret recipe and things caught on like wildfire. With the right folks around him and a great demand, KFC is one of the most well known brands on earth. All because he provided a useful service.
Ryan