Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Winston Churchill

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Nelson Mandela

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Eve Ensler

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

– Edgar W. Howe

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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"

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

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

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

– Mary Oliver

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Martha Beck

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Peter F. Drucker

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

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

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Eckhart Tolle