He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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"
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
