By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Hindu Proverb

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Martha Beck

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

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

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

– William Shakespeare

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– John Quincy Adams

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

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

– Anthony Trollope

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

– Andrew Carnegie

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Ray Bradbury

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

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

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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"

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Virginia Woolf

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– African Proverb

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

– Alfred Adler

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– John Lennon

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War