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I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work. \n\tFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. \n\tWhether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. \n\tFaith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. \tThe secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming task into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. \n\tIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. \n\tSatisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. \tMistakes are the portals of discovery. \n\tMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. \n\tIn order to succeed we must first believe that we can. \n\tWhen you're a winner, you come back no matter what happened the day before. \n\tA man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. \n\tSuccess seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. \n\tSuccess usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. \n\tTo the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. \n\tSuccess is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. \n\tFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. \n\tHope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. \tYou have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. \n\tIf your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important. \n\tHope is a risk that must be run. \tAnything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. \n\tDoubt your doubts and believe your beliefs. \tSix essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. \n\tIf you always think what you've always thought, \n\tLook for the bright spot and move yourself toward it. There always is a bright spot. Learn to see it. Learn to value it, and you will learn to succeed. \n\tTo be the messenger of the invisible is an honor. \n\tHope… \n\tMaking Wishes<\/p>\n \tThe best time to make a wish is when you throw a penny in the fountain. \n\tLet's take the bouldering mistakes of the past, \n\tCompared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are dampened, our drafts are checked, we are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources. \n\tYou can have anything you want — if you want it badly enough. \n\tHe who keeps his face towards the sun, will find that the shadows fall behind him. \n\tYour beliefs create your reality. If you don't believe this is true, the reality you create by not believing it, proves that it is true. \n\tWe must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure. \n\tFailure is impossible. \n\tTo laugh often and love much; \n\tIf you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. \tThe things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. \n\tIt's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. \n\tA thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. \n\tOnly those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. \tHistory 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. \n\tSome men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. \n\tIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. \n\tTo be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. \n\tThose who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. \t Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. \tI've MISSED more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. \t 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. \n\tProcrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy. \n\tThere are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. \tTo freely bloom – that is my definition of success. \n\tAerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. \t52<\/strong><\/p>\n \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" < I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Whether you believe … Continue reading
\n\t – Thomas Edison<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Mahatma Gandhi
\n\t(1869-1948) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Henry Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Kahlil Gibran
\n\tmystic, poet and artist
\n\t(1883-1931) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Henry David Thoreau<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – James Joyce<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Bhagavad-Gita<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Michael Korda<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Billy Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Charles Schwab<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – William Feather<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Henry David Thoreau
\n\t(1817-1862)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Albert Schweitzer
\n\tphilosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate
\n\t(1875-1965)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Helen Keller<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – George Iles<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Thomas Wolfe
\n\tnovelist
\n\t(1900-1938)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Arther Bloch<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Georges Bernanos
\n\tLast Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Betty Bender<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – (attributed) Pastor Rick Warren
\n\tA Purpose Driven Life<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – William Menninger<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tYou will always do what you've always done.
\n\tIf you always do what you've always done,
\n\tYou will always get what you've always got.
\n\tIf you always get what you've always got,
\n\tYou will always think what you've always thought.
\n\t – unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Ralph Marston<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – James Levin, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tHope is a flower.
\n\tShe is like a spreading rainbow.
\n\tShe radiates, cares, and plays.
\n\tShe's my best friend…
\n\tHope
\n\t – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
\n\t(1990-2004) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tThe best time to make a wish is when you see the first star.
\n\tThe best time to make a wish is when you blow out the candles on your cake.
\n\tAnd the very best time to make a wish is when you have a special prayer in your heart.
\n\t – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
\n\t(1990-2004) <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tAnd the roadblocking challenges of the present,
\n\tAnd build them into stairs that support our climb into the future.
\n\t – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
\n\t(1990-2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – William James<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tYou can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish
\n\tif you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
\n\t – Abraham Lincoln
\n\t16th president of the United States
\n\t(1809-1865)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – old Native American saying<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Harry Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – E. F. Schumacher<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Susan B. Anthony<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tto win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;
\n\tto earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends;
\n\tto appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
\n\tto give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better,
\n\twhether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
\n\tto have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
\n\tto know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived —
\n\tthis is to have succeeded.
\n\t – Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Lord Salisbury
\n\tBritish prime minister
\n\t(1830-1903)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – John Steinbeck
\n\tnovelist, Nobel laureate
\n\t(1902-1968)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Claude M. Bristol<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Mark Twain
\n\tauthor and humorist
\n\t(1835-1910)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – T.S. Elliot<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Bertie C. Forbes<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Herodotus<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Francis Bacon
\n\tessayist, philosopher, and statesman
\n\t(1561-1626)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Howard Zinn<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Robert F. Kennedy
\n\t(1925-1968)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Albert Schweitzer <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Michael Jordan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Denis Waitley
\n\tauthor, speaker, poet, lyricist & productivity consultant<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Denis Waitley
\n\tauthor, speaker, poet, lyricist & productivity consultant<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Denis Waitley
\n\tauthor, speaker, poet, lyricist & productivity consultant<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Gerry Spence, lawyer
\n\t(1929 )<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t – Mary Kay Ash<\/strong><\/p>\n