That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– African Proverb

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– William Blake

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

“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.

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Robert Frost

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

– William James

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Erica Jong

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

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

– Norwegian proverb

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Byron Katie

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

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Helen Keller

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– Brian Tracy

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Carlos Castaneda

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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