The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– African Proverb

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Mae West

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Thomas Edison

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

– Anais Nin

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– William James

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Zig Ziglar

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Eckhart Tolle

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

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

– Anna Pavlova

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Thomas Dunn

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

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

– James Madison