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

– John Lennon

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– James Madison

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Anna Pavlova

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Optimism rules

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– African Proverb

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

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

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Jack Kerouac

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Muhammad Yunus