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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Robert Frost

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Anais Nin

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

– Optimism rules

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

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Lord Chesterfield

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

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

– Thomas Edison

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

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

– James Madison

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Chinese Proverb

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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"

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

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

– Winston Churchill

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"

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

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

– Byron Katie

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching