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

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

– General Omar Bradley

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Martha Beck

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– African Proverb

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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"

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

– William Blake

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

– Chinese Proverb

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– John Quincy Adams

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

– Victor Kiam

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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"

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

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

– Oscar Wilde

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

– Lord Chesterfield

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– Benjamin Franklin

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

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

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt