We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

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"

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

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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

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

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman