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

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

– Oprah Winfrey

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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"

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Noela Evans

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Winston Churchill

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

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

– Steven Schussler

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– Michelle Sedas

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Buddha

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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 you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Maureen Cook

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

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

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Charles Dickens

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

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

– Charles Darwin

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist