The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
