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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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"

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Mae West

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

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

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Thomas Dunn

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– William Butler Yeats

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– John D. Rockefeller

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Albert Einstein

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

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Booker T. Washington

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Eckhart Tolle

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Brian Tracy

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Ray Bradbury

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler