We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
“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 true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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"
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
