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

– Napoleon

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– E.B. White

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– T.S. Eliot

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Leonard Cohen

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Barack Obama

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Maureen Cook

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Anthony Trollope

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Charles Darwin

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West