It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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"

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

– Erica Jong

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

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

– Napoleon

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

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Muhammad Yunus

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

– Steven Schussler

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

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

– Booker T. Washington

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

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

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Annie Dillard

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Mary Oliver

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Brian Tracy

“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.

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Guy Kawasaki

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– E.B. White

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

– Charles Dickens

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– Eckhart Tolle

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Lewis Carroll

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin