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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Martha Beck

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

– Corita Kent

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

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Carl Rogers

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

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

– Magical

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Aristotle

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Martha Beck

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

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"

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Jesse Jackson

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– African Proverb

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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