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

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

– Leonard Cohen

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

– Ray Bradbury

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Mae West

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– E.B. White

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Gandi

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Victor Kiam

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Buddha

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– James Madison

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

– Voltaire

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

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Corita Kent

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama