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

– Jesse Jackson

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

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

– Charles Dickens

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

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

– African Proverb

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– E.B. White

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

– Voltaire

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Basil King

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton