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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Napoleon

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Mae West

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Noela Evans

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Gandi

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

– James Madison

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

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– T.S. Eliot

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Woodrow Wilson

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Byron Katie

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Charles Darwin

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Eve Ensler

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