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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The 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

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

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Voltaire

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Martha Beck

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

– Carl Rogers

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

– William Butler Yeats

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

– John Lennon

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Erica Jong

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Mary Oliver

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle