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

– Robert H. Schuller

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Lord Chesterfield

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Oscar Wilde

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Arundhati Roy

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

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

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Groucho Marx

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

– Noela Evans

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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"

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 do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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