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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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"

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

– Napoleon

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

– Mary Oliver

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

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

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Magical

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Buddha

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Tony Robbins

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– 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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Chinese Proverb

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Louisa May Alcott

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Anais Nin

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Victor Kiam

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

– August Rush