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

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Jimi Hendrix

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Henry Miller

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

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Albert Einstein

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

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

– Martha Beck

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Andrew Carnegie

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Corita Kent

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

– Basil King

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck