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

– Madam C.J. Walker

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Gandi

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Winston Churchill

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

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

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

– Steven Schussler

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

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

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

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

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

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

– William Blake

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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