A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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 need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
“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.
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
