My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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"

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Martha Beck

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

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

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Chinese Proverb

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Voltaire

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

– Carl Rogers

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Arundhati Roy

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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