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

– Steve Jobs

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Marcel Proust

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Thomas Dunn

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– General Omar Bradley

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Martha Beck

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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

– T.S. Eliot

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Basil King

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Charles Dickens

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Thomas Edison

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

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

– Gandi

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

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

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Carl Rogers