We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
