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

– William James

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Michelle Sedas

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– Maureen Cook

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Thomas Edison

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– James Madison

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

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– William Blake

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Thomas Dunn

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo