“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned;perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back – and at some point everyone look back – she will hear her heart, saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you?””
— Paulo Coelho
“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”
— George S. Patton
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
— Harry Chapin
“The PAST is where you learned the lesson. The FUTURE is where you apply the lesson. Don’t give up in the middle.”
— Ed Mylett
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn”
— Unknown
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”
-— Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“The founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain was a low-level employee in a corner grocery when he visited a cafeteria and got the idea that the same techniques could be applied to the grocery business. He was ridiculed by experts, but he was convinced that the idea was a good one. Saunders persevered, and his adaptation of the self-service idea to the grocery business led him to become the father of the modern supermarket. It is often true that a great idea alone is not enough to achieve success. Implementation may require as much as or more imagination than coming up with the idea originally. Those who study such things, however, report that when you have a really good idea, even if you can’t prove it, you will intuitively know that it is good. If you’re convinced, stick with it. Others will eventually recognize the value of your idea.”
— Napoleon Hill