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

– Carl Rogers

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

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

– Lord Chesterfield

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Charles Dickens

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

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

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– The Dalai Lama

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

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

– Corita Kent

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Chinese Proverb

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Thomas Carlyle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– William James

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

– Noela Evans