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Our greatest glory is in not in never failing, but in rising each time we fall.

We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

Always do more than is required of you.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -Henry Ford

To achieve, you need thought... that's real power. -Ayn Rand

You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss, you will still be among the stars.

Choose to persevere, rather than quit.

Don't wait until it's too late.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

If your aim in life is nothing, then you can't miss... and you can't win.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Courage is the art of being the only one that knows you're scared to death.

People who are good losers have to lose to prove it.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge those who fail to try.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat -T. Roosevelt

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. -Heneage Ogilvie

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather, on Tenacity

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."  You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt, on Ambition

Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for. -Marian Wright Edelman

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. -Mike Murdock

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. -Theodore Roosevelt

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the small, quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

Don't be afraid to give up the good, to go for the great. -Kenny Rogers

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. -Conte Vittorio Alfieri

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

How are you ever gonna know, if you never take the chance? -Garth Brooks

Don't let fear stand in the way of your dreams, even if your wildest dream is your biggest fear.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making dreams come true.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. -Napoleon Hill

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
-Maya Angelou
"Still I Rise"

We often fear the thing we want the most.

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

When on the road to success, remember that it's not very crowded on the extra mile!

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.
-Peter J. Davies (b. 1937)
- Australian writer, author

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charles O. Finley

The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything.
-Lee Iacocca

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-Lady Bird Johnson

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-Dorothea Brande

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
-William James

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
- Denis Waitley
- Seeds of Greatness

Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
-Florence Shinn

Sometimes, there are things that are worth the chance, and when you find them...everything else in the world doesn't matter

When you have many things to do, remember to keep to task.

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.

Reach for the brightest star, not just the closest one.

Use what talents you possess. For the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
-Henry van Dyke

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Calvin Coolidge
(1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA)

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner (1897-1962)
-American writer, "The Sound and the Fury"

Don't worry about failure. Worry about the things you miss when you don't even try.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-William Shakespeare

I play to win. Even when common sense should tell me I no longer have a chance. Even when I have been playing at my very worst and all the breaks have been going against me. I approach each new day, and each new game as a glorious opportunity to get going again.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you, You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody know what you want except for you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams.

You can't win if you don't play.

Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve what you want.
-10 Things I Hate About You

It's not brave if you're not scared.
-Bounce

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller

If you want something you've never had, you have to be willing to do something you've never done.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -Zig Ziglar

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
-Nicholas Murray Butler

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
-Lise Hand, describing the late Irish journalist Veronica Guerin.

To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been.
-Ben Franklin

If a star jumped into the sea, it might swim. If a fish flew into the sky, it might fly. Anyway, you'll never know until you try.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-Abraham Lincoln

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
-Mark Twain

If you set your sights on only grabbing a leaf off a high tree limb, instead of grabbing for a star, because you believe that the leaf is more attainable, you will only get the leaf, which will wither and die, while the star still shines from afar.

When the tides of life turn against you, and the current upsets your boat, don't waste your tears on what might have been, just get on your back and float.

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, "I'll win," not "I'll probably lose." When you compete with someone else, think, "I'm equal to the best," not "I'm out-classed." When opportunity appears, think "I can do it," never "I can't.' Let the master thought "I-will-succeed" dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.
-David J. Schwartz

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
-Louisa May Alcott

Failure is nothing but a turn to a better road to success.
-S. Murali Krishna

The little extra is the difference between mediocrity and greatness!

Fear is only False Evidence Appearing Real

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
-1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

Beat me if you can, survive if I let you.

Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, When we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
-Willis Whitney