Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. --Charles Luckman
Good questions outrank easy answers.--Paul A. Samuelson
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. --Lord Chesterfield
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. -Ferdinand Foch
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.--William E. Gladstone
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. --Thomas Fuller
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. --French Management saying
To do two things at once is to do neither.--Publilius Syrus
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.--Robert S. Hillyer
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.--Spanish Proverb
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.--Jim Bishop
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.--Langston Hughes
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. --Charles F. Kettering
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.--Lao-Tzu
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.--Charles Lynch
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.--Alistair Cooke
There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.--Sufi Proverb
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.--Wilma Askinas
Each of us has a spark in life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. --Kenny Ausubel
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back. --Orison Swett Marden
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.--Plutarch
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. --Anthony Robbins
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.-- Whitney Young, JR.
Dreams have as much influences as actions. --Stephane Mallarme
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra miles. --Anonymous
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. --Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.--Samuel Smiles
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.--Louis E.Boone
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.--George Bernard Shaw
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. --Dag Hammarskjold
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.--Denis Waitley
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.--Denis Waitley
All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so as of now. --Pearl S. Buck
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.--Mark Twain
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.--Bible
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.--Christian N. Bovee
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.--Miguel De Cervantes
Thought is the blossom; language is the bud; action the fruit behind.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams
Convincing yourself does not win an argument.--Robert Half
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. --Sanskrit Proverb
The more you use your brain, the more brain you'll have to use.--George A. Dorsey
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.--Jennie Jerome Churchill
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. --Akhenaton
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. --Napoleon Bonaparte
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.--Charles Caleb Colton
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.--Peace Pilgrim
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.-- B. C. Forbes.
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.--John Ruskin
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.--Christopher Morley
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.--Ed Foreman
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