Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Anais Nin

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

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

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

– Victor Kiam

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Henry Miller

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

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

– August Rush

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Arthur Rubinstein