What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -Mignon McLaughlin

Develop That Latent Force In You

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

-John Heywood

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. -Robert Updegraff

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 277

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 277

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Opportunities: An Adventure in Disaster

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

-Edward McCabe

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -William Boetcker

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. -Benjamin Franklin

You Might Be On The Line Of Success And Not Know It

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

-Elbert Hubbard

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. -William Saroyan

The Highway to Success

Failure...is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

-John Keats

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -G.B. Shaw

Expect Victory

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

-Preston Bradley

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel Reardon

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. -Saint Bartholomew

Success On Your Own Terms

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

-Harrison Ford

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. -George Bernard Shaw

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. -Emerson

One Determined Person

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

-Sonia Johnson

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. -James Baldwin