It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
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
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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 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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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"
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
