Approach
each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to
get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
You may not like what you find. In
that case you are entitled to try to change it.
But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the
situation.
- Bernard M. Baruch
One
who fears failure limits his activities. Failure
is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Success
is 99 percent failure.
- Soichiro
Honda, Founder, Honda Motor Corporation
No
one can ever win anything if they’re not fully prepared to lose, because if
they play too conservatively they caution themselves at all times.
They never reach out and they never challenge themselves, because the
fear of failing is too great. So
they never stretch, they never try, they never make the effort that it takes to
really become successful because they can’t stand the defeat.
Nothing
fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.
- Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993),
economist and writer
I’ve
missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six
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.
Ninety
percent of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
- Paul J. Meyer, entrepreneur and writer
Remember,
there are two benefits of failure: First, if you do fail, you learn what
doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new
approach.
- Roger Von Oech, creativity expert
Press
not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
- Lord Chamberlain, in Shakespear's The
Life of King Henry VIII
The
only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 inaugural address)
Fear
is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s
like fire. If you can control it,
it can cook for you; it can heat your house.
If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy
you.
- Cus D’Amato (1908-1985), boxing trainer
Only two groups of people fall for flattery—men and women.
We
cling to our bad feelings and beat ourselves with the past when what we should
do is let go of it, like Peter did. Once
you let go of guilt, then you go out and change the world.
- James Carroll
How
unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Hatred
is not diminished by hatred at any time. Hatred
is diminished by love. This is an
eternal law.
- Budda
We must develop and maintain the capacity to
forgive. He who is devoid of the
power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther
King
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- Thomas
Jefferson
Of
all the means which wisdom uses to ensure happiness throughout the whole of
life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Strangers
are what friends are made of.
- Cullen Hightower
Actions,
not words, are the true criteria of the attachment of friends.
Misfortune shows those who are not really
friends.
- Aristotle
How
rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered
a friend.
Be
courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before
you give them your confidence. True
friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks
of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
If
a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon
find himself alone. A man should
keep his friendships in constant repair.
The
only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold
a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian proverb
Some
of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the
unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
- Christine Leefeldt and Ernest Callenbach
If you would win a man to your
cause, fist convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
- Woodrow Wilson
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real
friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
Friendship
is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
No
road is long with good company.
- Turkish Proverb
Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Friendship
doubles our joy and divides our grief.
- Swedish proverb
Friendship
is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
An
honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
- Proverbs 24:26
The
person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His
heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away
if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
A
real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Treat
your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
- Jennie Jerome Churchill
We
control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent
of it.
- Barbara Colorose
Fate
chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
- Jacques Delille (Malheur et Pitié)
It
is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that
they will help us.
- Epicurus
What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Without
friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
Oh
the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having
neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out,
just as they are—chaff and grain together—certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what
is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away...
- Dinah Mulock
You
may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and
never speak openly with them from your soul.
- Ivan Turgenev
The
glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the
joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone
else believes in him and
is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
LOST!
CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT…
FULFILLMENT.
Often
confused for short-lived fun.
So do not bother searching amusement parks,
bars, or sporting events. Answers
to “Work”
And “Dedication.” Often seen
with best friends
Loyalty, Commitment, and Passion.
LIFETIME
REWARD.
- Linda
Maxwell,
Educator and writer
You
better live your best and act your best and think your best today,
for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that
follow.
The
future is today.
- William Osler
Don’t
let the future be that time when you wish you’d done what you aren’t doing
now.
- John Mason, Know your Limits—then Ignore Them!, Insight Publishing
Group
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