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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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 aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton