‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

– Mae West

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

– Chinese proverb

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

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

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

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

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– John Quincy Adams

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– John Lennon

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Oprah Winfrey

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Peter F. Drucker

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Mary Oliver

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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

– Thomas Edison

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

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

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Buddha

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– Henry David Thoreau