We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
“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.
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"
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
