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

– J.K. Rowling

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Gandi

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

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Voltaire

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

– Tony Robbins

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

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

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

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

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

– Basil King

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Robert Frost

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

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

– Edgar W. Howe

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt