It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– General Omar Bradley

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

– Henry Miller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Anita Roddick

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Andrew Carnegie

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Lewis Carroll

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Martha Beck

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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"

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– Avenida Margarita

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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 good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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"

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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