Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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"
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
