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

– Anita Roddick

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

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

– Maureen Cook

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

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Napoleon

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– 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