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

– Optimism rules

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Noela Evans

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– E.B. White

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Robert Frost

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

– Buddha

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

– Hindu Proverb

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Carl Rogers

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi