That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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"

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 goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Eve Ensler

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Indira Ghandi

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Optimism rules

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– African Proverb

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

– Alfred Adler

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Anais Nin

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

– August Rush

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

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

– Mae West

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

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

– Barack Obama

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

– Helen Keller

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies