We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
