Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
