Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

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"

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Albert Einstein

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

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

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

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Robert Frost

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– T.S. Eliot

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 would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Thomas Dunn

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– William James

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

– Goldie Hawn

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Jack Kerouac

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

– Winston Churchill

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Anna Pavlova

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Francesca Reigle