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

– Andrew Carnegie

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Guy Kawasaki

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Victor Kiam

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– William Shakespeare

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

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Jesse Jackson

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Voltaire

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

– William James

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

– Zig Ziglar

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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"

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

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

– Erica Jong

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

– Gandi

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– General Omar Bradley

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Henry Miller

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

– E.B. White

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

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Charles Darwin

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda