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

– Mae West

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

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

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

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Thomas Edison

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Groucho Marx

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

– Carlos Castaneda

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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"

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

– Eckhart Tolle

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– T.S. Eliot

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Brian Tracy

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck