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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Henry Miller

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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"

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

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

– Optimism rules

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– African Proverb

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

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

– Albert Einstein

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Guy Kawasaki

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Magical

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– John Quincy Adams

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Henry David Thoreau