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

– Optimism rules

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Buddha

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

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Carlos Castaneda

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– Albert Einstein

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Magical

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Charles Darwin

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

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

– Martha Beck

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Peter F. Drucker

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

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

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie