Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
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
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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
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
