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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Oprah Winfrey

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

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

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

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Joseph Cambell

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Henry David Thoreau

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Guy Kawasaki

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Winston Churchill

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

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

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

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"

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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"

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Anna Pavlova