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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– Winston Churchill

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

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

– Jimi Hendrix

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

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

– Anais Nin

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

– Lewis Carroll

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

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

– Aristotle

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare