Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
