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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Eve Ensler

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

– African Proverb

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"

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

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

– The Dalai Lama

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Tony Robbins

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

– Muhammad Yunus

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

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

– Martha Beck

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Chinese Proverb

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Marcel Proust

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– William Blake

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Robert Frost

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

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

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Anna Pavlova

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Jesse Jackson

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