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A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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"

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Steven Schussler

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

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– J.K. Rowling

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Lord Chesterfield

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Robert Frost

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Martha Beck

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Muhammad Yunus

“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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

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

– Voltaire

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

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

– Aristotle

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Oprah Winfrey

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– James Madison

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki