Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Charles Darwin

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

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Mae West

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

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

– Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

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

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"

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

– Victor Kiam

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Thomas Dunn

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Carl Rogers

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom