Quote vs Quote…?

-Andre Dubus

Out of every failure & disappointment is the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit!

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

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If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

— Dolly Parton

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

— Anonymous

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 he has overcome while trying to succeed

— Booker T. Washington

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

— Grace Lichtenstein

You miss 100% of the shots you never take

Fear is a self-fulfilling emotion. When we fear something, we empower it to become fearful.

— Harvey Mackay in Sharkproof.

Come to the edge. No we’ll fall. Come to the edge. No we can’t. Come to the edge. No we’re afraid. And they came And he pushed them And they flew…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain (1835-1910)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

— Seneca

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to become great.

— Les Brown

Become who you are

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

— Woody Allen

Every shot not taken is a goal not scored.

— Wayne Gretzky

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

— Anais Nin

Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

— Winston Churchill

Fortune favors the brave.

— Virgil, Aeneid

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

— Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

— John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1874

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

— Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer

— Albert Einstein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

— Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there

— Will Rogers

When I believe I can do something, I acquire the ability to do it, even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Never never, never, never give up.

— Winston Churchill

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Confucius

Failure is not when you fall down; It’s when you don’t get up.

— Unknown

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

— John C. Maxwell

William Blake