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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Aristotle

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

– Thomas Carlyle

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– William Blake

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Victor Kiam

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Henry David Thoreau

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Anais Nin

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– John Quincy Adams

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– William James

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Lao Tzu

“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.

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

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

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Annie Dillard

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill