The following quotes have validated something I have long believed. That simply put, failure means someone who has attempted to do something. Failure is a sign of courage not a badge of shame. Rather embrace and leverage failure as a motivator for success.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you so have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“When you’re passionate about your job and career, success comes naturally and peacefully in both your personal and professional life” – Tom Powner
“The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline” – Steve Smith
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~ Maria Robinson
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.” – M. Scott Peck
“If everybody’s thinking alike, then somebody’s not thinking.” – George S. Patton
“Don’t be defined by your past, your past is the tutor of your present and is always preparing you for new experience. Forget about disappointment or any past mistakes that are keeping you from moving forward. It’s never too late for a new beginning.” – Kemmy Nola
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it” – Jonathan Winters
“The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning” – Ivy Baker Priest
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Don’t fall before you’re pushed” – English Proverb
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining” – John F Kennedy
“Positive things happen to positive people.” – Sarah Beeny
“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Betty White
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F Kennedy
