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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– William Blake

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Martha Beck

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

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Byron Katie

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Indira Ghandi

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"

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Booker T. Washington

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Henry Miller

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

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Anais Nin

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

– Basil King

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Thomas Dunn

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Muhammad Yunus