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

– Albert Einstein

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– General Omar Bradley

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Martha Beck

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"

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

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– Peter F. Drucker

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

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

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Napoleon

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

– Martha Beck

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

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, be an honest and compassionate person, and contribute in some way.”

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Steven Schussler

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Mae West

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

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

– Indira Ghandi

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– William Shakespeare

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Byron Katie

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

– Bill Cosby

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

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

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

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

– E.B. White

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Chinese Proverb

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Charles Dickens

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

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

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Victor Kiam

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

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

– Optimism rules

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Robert Frost

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson