Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– A wisdomism

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Woodrow Wilson

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Napoleon

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Guy Kawasaki

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Annie Dillard

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Marcel Proust

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Robert Frost

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

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

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