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

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

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

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Chinese proverb

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– James Madison

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Charles Darwin

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Corita Kent

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Joseph Cambell

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Magical

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

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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