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