The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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"

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Guy Kawasaki

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– August Rush

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Maureen Cook

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Albert Einstein

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

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

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

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

– Christopher Morley

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– William James

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Martha Beck