We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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"
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 one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
