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

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Avenida Margarita

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– John D. Rockefeller

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Mae West

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

– Carl Rogers

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Goldie Hawn

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle