The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

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

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Martha Beck

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Martha Beck

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Alfred Adler

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Maureen Cook

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Carlos Castaneda

“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.

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

– Buddha

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Jesse Jackson

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Thomas Edison

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard