If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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"
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
