A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
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
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
Steven Schussler
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliott
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
Optimism rules
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
Barack Obama
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
Henry David Thoreau
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
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
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
Barack Obama
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
Mary Jean Irion
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
Martha Beck
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
Avenida Margarita
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
Betty Smith
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
Martha Beck