A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

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

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

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Avenida Margarita

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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

– Virginia Woolf

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Mae West

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

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"

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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