“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Michelle Sedas

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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"

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

– Nelson Mandela

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– William Blake

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Lewis Carroll

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Winston Churchill

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

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

– Aristotle

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Eve Ensler

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

– Napoleon

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Booker T. Washington