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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– August Rush

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– 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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Albert Einstein

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Annie Dillard

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

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

– Victor Kiam

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Henry Miller

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Mae West

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

– Anais Nin

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

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Anna Pavlova

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

– Barack Obama

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

– T.S. Eliot