As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Avenida Margarita

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Noela Evans

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Winston Churchill

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Gandi

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"

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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"

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert