When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
September 1, 2010
Latest September 1, 2010 Quotes
Don’t let success go to your head—and if you fail, don’t let failure go there either.
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
There is only one real failure in life, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Successful people are those who’ve fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on a dozen times.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is…in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard—reaching for the highest that is in us—becoming all that we can be.
A teacher ultimately is judged by the achievement of his students.
The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.
Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.
A friend of mine, Olga, has developed her own personal definition of success. She says that 'Success is when you are happy to go to work in the morning and happy to come back in the evening, and you are very welcome and liked in both places.'
This is God’s work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it’s worth my time and it’s worth your time….Working together as God’s people in the world—I don’t know of anything more rewarding.
The small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes brain cells light up with quiet joy.
