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

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Lao Tzu

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

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

– Eve Ensler

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– General Omar Bradley

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Chinese Proverb

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

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

– Booker T. Washington

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Henry Miller

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

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

– Erica Jong

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Ajahn Chah

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

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

– Guy Kawasaki

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz