We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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 only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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 not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
