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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Napoleon

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

– Hindu Proverb

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

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

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Martha Beck

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

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

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"

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Booker T. Washington

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Abraham Lincoln

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

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

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Mae West

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Francesca Reigle

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"

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

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

– Ray Bradbury

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

– Carl Rogers

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– William Blake

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare