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

– Andrew Carnegie

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Michelle Sedas

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

– Thomas Edison

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– Victor Kiam

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

– Basil King

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Carl Rogers

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– William James

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

– Annie Dillard

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

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

– Thomas Edison

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Byron Katie

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– Chinese proverb

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

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Ray Bradbury

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson