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

– Jesse Jackson

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

– Henry Miller

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

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

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

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

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Zig Ziglar

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

– Anna Pavlova

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– Anais Nin

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Optimism rules

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Carlos Castaneda

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

– William Shakespeare

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert