If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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"
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
