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

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Oscar Wilde

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

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

– William Blake

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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

– Charles Darwin

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Chinese Proverb

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Henry Miller

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

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

– Benjamin Franklin

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"

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

– Eve Ensler

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

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

– Martha Beck

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– E.B. White

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

– Steven Schussler