Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Anita Roddick

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

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Victor Kiam

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Mary Oliver

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– African Proverb

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

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

– Mae West

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Noela Evans

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Carl Rogers

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"

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Winston Churchill

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

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

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

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

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

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

– Charles Dickens

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– William Blake