Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

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

– Magical

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

– Mae West

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

– Byron Katie

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

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

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

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

– Thomas Carlyle

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

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

– Victor Kiam

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Gandi

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– Buddha

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Christopher Morley

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Voltaire

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

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

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

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