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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

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Michelle Sedas

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Optimism rules

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Albert Schweitzer

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

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"

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– A wisdomism

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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