"The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank
of a river without feeling guilty about it."
Anonymous
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by
perfect men."
George Eliot
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of
it."
William Faulkner
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty."
Martha Friedman
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."
Goethe
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus
"Its OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break."
Billy Joel
"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities
which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
"To accomplish more, redirect your mental energy by continuously reminding
yourself of all the things you do right."
Brian Koslow
"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
Vince Lombardi
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction"
General Douglas MacArthur
"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever
have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy
if not less of it doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we
really want to do."
Terry McMillan
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
John Powell
"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as
they go by."
Will Rogers
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and
comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and
shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy
cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and
who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be
with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
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the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a
natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended.
You will miss it.
Anne W. Schaef
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side
to take us around the unknown curve."
Lillian Smith
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to
lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit."
Harry S. Truman
