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

– Noela Evans

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Hindu Proverb

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– Anthony Trollope

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

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

– Alfred Adler

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Mae West

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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"

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Ray Bradbury

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

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

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Anais Nin

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

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

– Tony Robbins

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Henry Miller

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop