That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Voltaire

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– T.S. Eliot

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– T.S. Eliot

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Gandi

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

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

– William James

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– A wisdomism

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

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

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

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

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Albert Einstein

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

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

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– John Quincy Adams

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz