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

– General Omar Bradley

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Maureen Cook

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Winston Churchill

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca