Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -Plato
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. -S Chisholm
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. -William IV Eardley
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -Colin Powell
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. -Irv Kupcinet (happy Canadian Thanksgiving!)
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. -Robert G. Allen
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. -Napoleon Hill
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. -Isaac Asimov
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -Benjamin Franklin
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. -Thomas Fuller