Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

– Aristotle

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Henry David Thoreau

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– William Blake

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

– Buddha

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Napoleon

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Thomas Dunn

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– E.B. White

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

– Christopher Morley

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Albert Einstein