Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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"
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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"
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
