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

– William Jennings Bryan

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Gandi

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Muhammad Yunus

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

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

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– William Shakespeare

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Robert Frost

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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"

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

– Martha Beck

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– William James