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

– Optimism rules

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Magical

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

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

– Charles Darwin

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Thomas Carlyle

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

– William Blake

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Winston Churchill

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– T.S. Eliot

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Martha Beck

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Anthony Trollope

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Jesse Jackson

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler