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The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela