Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Mae West

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Thomas Dunn

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Albert Einstein

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

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

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Gandi

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Francesca Reigle

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Magical

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

– Noela Evans

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

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

– Napoleon

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Martha Beck

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

– Henry Miller