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

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

– Goldie Hawn

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Norwegian proverb

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Jesse Jackson

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– 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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– General Omar Bradley

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– Anna Pavlova

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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"