What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– T.S. Eliott

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Chinese Proverb

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– General Omar Bradley

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

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

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Barack Obama

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Corita Kent

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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

– John D. Rockefeller

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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