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

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

– Robert H. Schuller

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– Mae West

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

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– E.B. White

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Martha Beck

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Thomas Dunn

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Christopher Morley

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Helen Keller

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

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

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

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Basil King

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

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

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Henry Miller

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

– William James

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Robert Frost

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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