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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Booker T. Washington

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Leonard Cohen

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– Bruce Lee

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Eve Ensler

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Andrew Carnegie

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Maureen Cook

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Martha Beck

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

Ripeness is all.”

– 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

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

– Tony Robbins