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

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

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Steven Schussler

“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.

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– William James

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

– Anita Roddick

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– J.K. Rowling

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

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

– African Proverb

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

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

– William Blake

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Lord Chesterfield

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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

– Gandi

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Maureen Cook

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– Magical

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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"

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

– John Quincy Adams

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

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

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill