? "Quotes" for Fueling your Passion

How do you go about finding your passion, and living it day to day? Here are 25 top quotes from successful entrepreneurs on discovering what you should be doing, and doing it.

• “Through our toughest challenges, we find our greatest strengths.”
  – Pramit J Nathan

• “Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open.”
  – Lord Thomas Robert Dewar

• “Stop looking for your purpose… Be It!”
  -Wayne Dyer

• “Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”
  – Catharina Bruns

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will
hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

• “Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.”
  – unknown source

• “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
  – Maya Angelou, American author and poet

• “You don’t have to change much to change everything.”
  – Mark Rosewater

• “To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.”
  – French Proverb

• “You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.”
  – Ken Field, composer

“Step one: Be something to somebody not
everything to nobody.”
– Jim Malcolm

• “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
  – Steve Jobs

• “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”
  – Donald H. Rumsfeld

• “The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.”
  – Jim Rohn, “rags to riches” entrepreneur

• “No great thing is created suddenly.”
  – Epictetus

• “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
  – Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

•  “The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.”
  – Carmine Gallo

 “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin

• “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
  – Albert Einstein

• “A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.”
  – Bo Bennett

•  “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” – Mary M. Morrissey

• “Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it’s right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.” – Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Network CEO

•  “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
  – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com

•  “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
  – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
  

•  “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.”
  – Oprah Winfrey, founder of OWN Network and O Magazine

• “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
  – Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

• “I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, it’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”
  – Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop

“If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you’re going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.”
– George Lucas, Founder of Lucasfilm Ltd.

• “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, TV Host

• “Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.”
  – Todd Garland
  

• “Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”
  – Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D and author

•  “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
  – Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions CEO

• “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 CEO and Theologian

•  “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
  – Robert Frost, American poet

• “We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”
  – Katherine Mansfield, prominent modernist writer

• “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
  – Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s

• “You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.”
  – Mark Victor Hansen, founder and co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series

•  “It’s so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.”
  – Wally Amos, American TV personality, entrepreneur and author

• “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
  – George Halas

• “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”
  – Bruce Lee

• “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
  – Pablo Picasso

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

•  “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”
  – Konrad Adenauer

• “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
  – Charles F Kettering

• “What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?”
  – Unknown

• “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.”
  – Frank Wilczek

• “The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.”
  – Tony Robbins

• “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
  – Mark Twain

• “If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
  – Kurt Lewin

• “Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some ask what happened.”
  – Casey Stengel

• “People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
  – André Gide

• “I reject your reality, and substitute my own.”
  – Adam Savage

• “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
  – Erich Fromm

“Life is based on perception, Perception is based on opinion, Opinion is based on thought, Thought comes from the mind. Change your mind , change your life.”
– Unknown

• “Panic is the great axis of creativity, because it’s the only way to get rid of your mind.”
  – Shekhar Kapur

•  “Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you’ll get new ones.”
  – Chris Brogan

• “Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you’ve programmed because of where you’ve put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”
  – David Allen

• “Innovations never happen as planned.”
  – Gifford Pinchot

Find your true passion in it, learn to be the best at it, and make your mark!

Written by,
Erik Kikuchi

? An international strategist and builder for start-ups and companies who need a partner to identify, protect and expand their markets.  

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