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

– Optimism rules

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Voltaire

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

– Albert Schweitzer

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– African Proverb

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– August Rush

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

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

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

– Noela Evans

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– Winston Churchill

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– James Madison

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

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

– Mae West

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Magical

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Bruce Lee

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

– William Shakespeare

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie