Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
