But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Marcel Proust

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Benjamin Franklin

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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"

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

– Chinese Proverb

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Anais Nin

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

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

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Martha Beck

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Helen Keller

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

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

– Eve Ensler

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Chinese proverb

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

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

– Virginia Woolf

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

– William James

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

– Buddha

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs