"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

Richard M. DeVos
Co-Founder of Amway

"So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done."

Marian Wright Edelman
Activist for the rights of children

"Stop being who you were and become who you are."

Paulo Coelho
Author

"Competition as we know it is dead. Collaboration is the new competition. It's about working with each other, not against. Together we all win."

Rich German
Author and Success Coach

"Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author

"Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined."

Richard Koch
Author of The 80/20 Principle

Affluence and abundance are our natural state.  Reawaken the memory. Deepok Chopra

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

Horace Mann
1796-1859, Education Reformer and Politician

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.   Anonynmous

A friend is a gift you give yourself.   Robert Louis Stevenson

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. Cinderella

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease 

Florence Scovel Shinn

A bad attitude cancels all other positive skills.

A happy person is not a person in a ceratin set of circumstances, but rather a person  with a certain set of attitudes.   Hugh Downs

I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change but till I try I'll never know.

From the song "Defying Gravity" in the play "Wicked"