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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

– Norwegian proverb

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Lewis Carroll

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

– Joseph Cambell

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Magical

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– Thomas Edison

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

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

– Charles Dickens

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

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

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

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

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– African Proverb

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

– Chinese proverb

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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"

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda