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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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"

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

– Martha Beck

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

– J.K. Rowling

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Lao Tzu

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

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

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

– Aristotle

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

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

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

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

– William James

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda