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Success and Failure

" A Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
An Optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

" All you need in life is ignorance and confidence,
and then success is sure."
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
Robert Browning

" And in the end it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln

Carefully watch your thoughts
for they become your words.

Manage and watch your words
for they will become your actions.

Consider and judge your actions
for they will become your habits.

Acknowledge and watch your habits
for they shall become your character
for it becomes your destiny and your dreams.

Author Unknown

Change is what happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
Anonymous

Don’t Quit

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must-but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow-
You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out-
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt-
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

Author unknown

 

Even a woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head

"Die when I may,
I want it said of me by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow."
Abraham Lincoln

"Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Every good thought you think is contributing its
to the ultimate result of your life."
Grenville Klieser

" Explore daily the Will of God. "
Carl Jung

"For all sad words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are those
"It might have been."
John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892)

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford
(1863-1947)

Failure is delay but not defeat
It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hands to work, hearts to God.

How great the virtue and the art,
to live on little with a cheerful heart.

"He has achieved success who has
worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
Elbert Hubbard

Hell is truth seen too late.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost
(1874-1965)

"I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect."
Julius Irving

" I used to ask God to help me.
Then I asked if I might help him.
I ended up by asking God to do His work through me."
Hudson Taylor
(1832-1905)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972)

It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so "till he tried."
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it."
But he took off his coat and took off his hat
And the first thing he knew he'd begun it.
With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done, and you'll do it.

Edgar A. Guest

 

It is not what you earn, it is what you keep.

" It is not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left."
Hubert Humphrey
(1911-1978)

I am only one, but I am one,

I cannot do everything,

but I can do something.

What I can do, I ought to do

and what I ought to do

by the grace of God

I shall do

  Edward Everett Hale

If God writes "opportunity" on one side of an open door,
He writes "responsibility" on the other side.

If You Think

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you want to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of the mind.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

Walter D. Wintle

 

"It is hard to fail,
but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
John Keats
(1795-1821)

"Men do less than they ought, unless
they do all that they can."
Thomas Carlyle

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great."

Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(1841-1935)

"Nothing will ever be attempted if
all possible objections must first be overcome."
Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford
(1863-1947)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

"One of the greatest enemies that we can ever face in life...
is the illusion that there will be more time tomorrow then there is today.
unknown

"Only those who risk going to far can
possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot

Procrastinastion is the thief of time.

Success is knowing that one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
Gen. George Patton
(1885-1945)

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

The reason so many people do not recognize opportunity when they meet it
is that it usually goes round wearing overalls and looking like hard work.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vixion of hope.

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

"That best portion of a man's life,
his little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)

"The toughest thing about being a success is
that you've got to keep on being a success."
Irving Berlin
(1888--1989)

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

"Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
Oprah Winfrey

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.


Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

"What we focus on determines what we miss - and what we become."
Unknown

"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin

"When we forget ourselves,
we usually do something that everyone else remembers."
Author Unknown

"You see things and say, "Why?",
but I dream things and say," Why not?" "
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)

" You must be the change you wish to see in the world. "
Gandhi
(1869-1948)

"You gain strength, experience, and confidence
by every experience where you really
stop to look fear in the face...
You must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)

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