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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

– Optimism rules

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

– Mary Oliver

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

“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.

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Martha Beck

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Martha Beck

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

– Chinese Proverb

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

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

– Henry David Thoreau

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

– Goldie Hawn

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Booker T. Washington

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling