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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Napoleon

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Noela Evans

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

– Optimism rules

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

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Steven Schussler

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

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"

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

– E.B. White

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

– Groucho Marx

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

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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Brian Tracy

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

– J.K. Rowling

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Woodrow Wilson

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Maureen Cook

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

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

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

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

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller