Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

– Corita Kent

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

“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.

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Byron Katie

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Charles Darwin

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Steven Schussler

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

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Chinese Proverb

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– Mae West

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Steven Schussler

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick