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"
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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 music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
