If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford (1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress)

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - T. Jefferson

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”--Voltaire

"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come."--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. When you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."--Victor Hugo

"It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present."--George MacDonald

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."


"Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Benjamin Franklin

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. Benjamin Spock (1903-, American Pediatrician)

"Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but youwill succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles." - Helen Keller

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. "

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” - Les Brown

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us.” - Les Brown

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

"without purpose time has no meaning, efforts have no reason, and life has no precision" - Myles Munroe.

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Statesman)
There’s no substitute for guts. Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983, American Football Coach)

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian)

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. Brooke Foss Westcott

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor)

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman)

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. Ann Landers (1918-, American Advice Columnist)

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973, American Aviator, World War I Ace)

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward with the life that God intended for you. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. Chinese Proverb

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. Dale Earnhardt (1952-, American race car driver)

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got. H. Stanley Judd, (American author)

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. Filipino Proverb

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th President of the USA)

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd (American Newspaper Columnist)

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. - Jan Ashford

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British Prime Minister)

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor)

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz (1829-1906, German-born American Senator)

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer )

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God. Leo Buscaglia (American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on! Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don`t will find an excuse! Leo Aguila

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in adetermined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German Philosopher)

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well." Louisa May Alcott

"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the LORD for it." Louisa May Alcott
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." - Martha Graham teacher & choreographer of modern dance

"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works." Jim Rohn

"Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it." Sudie Back
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

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

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. William C. Bryant (1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor)

Luck marches with those who give their very best. H. Jackson Brown Jr. (American Author of "Life's Little Instruction Book" Series)

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. Bobby Knight (1940-, American Basketball Coach)

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John Enoch Powell (1912-, British Statesman)