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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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Chinese Proverb

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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