Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

– Lord Chesterfield

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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"

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

– William James

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Robert Frost

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Gandi

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Carl Rogers

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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

– Corita Kent

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

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Noela Evans

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

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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

– T.S. Eliot

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

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

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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