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If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

– Martha Beck

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

– Guy Kawasaki

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Albert Schweitzer

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

– Peter F. Drucker

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson