Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Martha Beck

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

– Thomas Dunn

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

– Gandi

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

– Chinese proverb

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– E.B. White

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"

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

– Barack Obama

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Alfred Adler

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– A wisdomism

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Goldie Hawn

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

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

– Christopher Morley

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"

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Magical

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– William Butler Yeats

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Andrew Carnegie

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Tony Robbins