My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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"
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
“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.
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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"
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
