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

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Noela Evans

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

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

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Thomas Edison

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

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

– Booker T. Washington

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

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

– Martha Beck

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

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

– William Blake

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

– Thomas Edison

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

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

– Goldie Hawn