Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Steve Jobs

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Martha Beck

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Robert H. Schuller

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Benjamin Franklin

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

– T.S. Eliot

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– T.S. Eliott

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– Magical

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Charles Darwin

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

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

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– James Madison

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

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

– Oprah Winfrey