Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
