Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
“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
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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 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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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 job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
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
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
