Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you're going to do now - and do it.
-William Durant-
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas Edison-
It does not matter how deep you fall, what matters is how high you bounce back.
- unknown-
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
-Dan Millman-
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
-Og Mandino-
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon-
Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.
- Peter Sinclair-
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb-
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
-Martin Luther King -
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
- Dr. Dale Turner-
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France-
He who has hope has everything.
-Arabian Proverb-
If you share your pain, you cut it in half, if you don't, you double it.
-unknown-
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
-Earl Nightingale-
We will either find a way, or make one.
-Hannibal-
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
- Pablo Picasso-
Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
-Anonymous-
Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?
-Bob Marley- Exodus.-
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite well that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie-
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-W. Somerset Maugham-
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot-
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
-Emily Dickinson-
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
-Kahlil Gibran-
See also Using Affirmations
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