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

– Thomas Edison

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

– William James

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

– Buddha

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Muhammad Yunus

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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"

‎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

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"

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Martha Beck

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

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 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

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Carl Rogers

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"

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Thomas Edison

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Ray Bradbury

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 not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

– Alfred Adler

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Napoleon

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

– Carl Rogers

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

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– A wisdomism

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams