The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Muhammad Yunus

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– General Omar Bradley

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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"

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Voltaire

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Marcel Proust

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Virginia Woolf

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Byron Katie

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– William Jennings Bryan