Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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"
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
