“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”

Venus Williams – Professional Tennis Player

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

Edward Estlin Cummings – 1894-1962, Poet, Painter, and Author

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

Dale Carnegie – 1888-1955, Author and Speaker

“I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.”

John F. Kennedy – 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

Ralph Blum – Screenwriter

“Cry – forgive – learn – move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

Steve Maraboli – Author and Speaker

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

Vince Lombardi – 1913-1970, Football Coach

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

Albert Schweitzer – 1875-1965, Theologian, Philosopher, and Physician

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anais Nin – 1903-1977, Author

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

Tim O’Reilly – Supporter of the Free Software and Open Source Movements