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

– Frederic Nietzsche

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

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

– William James

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

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

– William Blake

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– John Quincy Adams

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Groucho Marx

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

– Chinese proverb

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Mary Oliver

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

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Maureen Cook

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Gandi

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

– T.S. Eliot

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Barack Obama

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Napoleon

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Henry Miller

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

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

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb