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

– Joseph Cambell

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Basil King

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Albert Einstein

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Victor Kiam

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

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

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

– The Dalai Lama

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– African Proverb

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson