Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

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

– Annie Dillard

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

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

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Goldie Hawn

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

– Booker T. Washington

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Mae West

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Peter F. Drucker

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Winston Churchill

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

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

– Mary Oliver

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

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Martha Beck