Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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 the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
