You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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"
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
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"
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
