“Don’t give up when things [are] not moving at a fast pace! Most SUCCESS stories come with struggles first! It’s about having that DRIVE & you have to see yourself already making it BIG even when u haven’t yet because that will help give u that DETERMINATION.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“We all know one of the hardest thing(s) to do is LET GO! Most of the time it’s because you might be comfortable but not happy! Welp! If [you're] in something or around people that’s not uplifting & holding you back, you must LET IT GO. Maybe you will see a difference & get ya blessings.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“If people always thought this way, there could never be progress or innovation or change. We would be stagnant forever, fearfully clinging to a past that was never as good as we like to pretend it was.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“Good things happening to other people does not mean that there are less good things available to happen to you.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“Dream about it like a child, fight for it like a grown up. Every single day.”— Claude Kelly, twitter.com
“When life gives you lemons, plant the lemon seeds. Grow lemon trees. Pick the lemons from the trees. Now you have more lemons. Accumulate those useless lemons. More. More lemons. Accumulate all those useless lemons just to spite life for giving them to you in the first place.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“There have so been many things in my life that didn't work out the way I thought I wanted to, that, looking back, I am very grateful did not happen. Different things await you. Keep going. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“I can guarantee you that everyone you look up to has faced failure and rejection thousands more times in their life than any sort of success. It's part of the path of making the thing. Maybe the most important. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“Maybe accepting and honoring your limits will make you value yourself more and push you toward what's most important to you. Maybe when you realize that you can't do everything you can start to choose what exactly it is you need to do. Maybe.”— Jonny Sun, instagram.com
“You'll be challenged but you don't have to be defeated by dominant negative thoughts.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Your commitment to a consistent connection and awareness of the presence of the Divine in your life will result in a greater sense of peace and connection that supports all that you do in every aspect of your life.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Do not endanger it frivolously. And never endanger the life of another.”— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org
“Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, never blame. Say nothing behind another’s back you’d be unwilling to say, in exactly the same tone and language, to his face.”— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org
“Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.”— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org
“Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.”— John Perry Barlow, kottke.org