Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– 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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
