Quotes to Inspire

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
- Thomas Edison.

"Results! I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do." ~Thomas Edison

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. 'Seeming to do' is not doing." -  Thomas Alva Edison

"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue."   - A Pigeon (or a statue)

".. the wider foundation the higher the peak. Always build the foundation." -Miles Austin - The Web Tools Guy

The worst thing you can do for someone is something they should be doing for themselves.  -  Tony Gaskins

"The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes."  -  Tony Gaskins

Karma takes care of things to an Exponential Extent. - Kent Speakman,  President - Speakman Entertainment

“Entrepreneur’s Credo "

I do not choose to be a common man,
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,
I seek opportunity … not security.

I do not wish to be a kept citizen.
Humbled and dulled by having the
State look after me.

I want to take the calculated risk;
To dream and to build.
To fail and to succeed.

I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;
I prefer the challenges of life
To the guaranteed existence;
The thrill of fulfillment
To the stale calm of Utopia.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence
Nor my dignity for a handout
I will never cower before any master
Nor bend to any threat.

It is my heritage to stand erect.
Proud and unafraid;
To think and act for myself,
To enjoy the benefit of my creations
And to face the world boldly and say:
This, with God’s help, I have done.

All this is what it means
To be an Entrepreneur.

― Thomas Paine, Author of "Common Sense"

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ― Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.  - Thomas Paine, Author of "Common Sense"

“Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”   ― Thomas Paine

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”   ― Thomas Paine

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”  ― Thomas Paine

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”  ― Thomas Paine

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

"The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished." - George Bernard Shaw

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

"When you tell me boring things, I set them free immediately."  - The Mentalist   (Patrick Jane)

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."  ― Bruce Lee

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."  - Sir Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. 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 others' 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

"Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs