Strategies: These quotes might help entrepreneurs GOIMO

ByABC News
August 28, 2009, 5:34 AM

— -- I'm a big fan of inspirational quotations. As someone who runs a small business, I find quotations inspire me, teach me, remind me of truths I know but may have forgotten, pick me up when I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.

I first started gathering quotations when I was in my early teens and have compiled thousands since. I thought I'd share some of my favorites with you. (My apologies if I have wrongly attributed a quotation. I've done my best to verify the source.)

Perhaps you'll find one or two of the following quotations speak to you.

On success:

"At the point in life where your talents meet the needs of the world is where God wants you to be." Albert Schweitzer

"You either have to be first, best, or different." Loretta Lynn

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." Wayne Gretzy

"A leader is powerful to the degree he empowers other people." I Ching

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

"To be happy you need: Something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to." Unknown

"The road to success is always under construction." Lily Tomlin

On life and self-confidence:

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden

"It's how many things you do right, not how many things you do wrong, that counts." Sandra Kurtzig,

"In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble." Yun-Men

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Wayne Gretzky

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did." Mark Twain

On work:

"If you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. " Katharine Hepburn

"Nothing will work unless you do." Maya Angelou