Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
