Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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 only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
