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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

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

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– Buddha

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Gandi

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Mae West

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

– Andrew Carnegie

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Erica Jong

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Eve Ensler

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

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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"

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Tony Robbins

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee