The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
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
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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"
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
