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

– General Omar Bradley

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Steve Jobs

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Basil King

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

– Thomas Edison

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Lao Tzu

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Anais Nin

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

– Noela Evans

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

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– Bruce Lee

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Robert H. Schuller

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Victor Kiam

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

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