It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Mary Oliver

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Gandi

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Byron Katie

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

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

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

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Voltaire

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Robert Frost

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

– Maureen Cook

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton