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

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

– Groucho Marx

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– African Proverb

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Jesse Jackson

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Thomas Edison

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Magical

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Anna Pavlova

“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.

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

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

– Jack Kerouac

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– John D. Rockefeller

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

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

– William Blake

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

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

– Anita Roddick

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

– Robert Frost

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Martha Beck