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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Steve Jobs

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

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Gandi

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Albert Einstein

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Thomas Carlyle

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Buddha

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

– Charles Dickens

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Alfred Adler

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

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

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– William Butler Yeats

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

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

– Robert Frost

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Zig Ziglar

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Winston Churchill

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt