Overcoming "Quotes"

OVERCOMING FAILURE

"Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before." -- Arthur Guiterman

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." -- Herbert Kaufman

"Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come." -- Og Mandino

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." -- William Durant

OVERCOMING FEAR

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis

"Not a single person has ever accomplished anything of significance without first feeling scared to death!" -- Rick Beneteau

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." -- Arianna Huffington

"To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be." -- Brian Tracy

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

"Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." -- Jean de la Fontaine

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -- Charlotte Bronte

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." -- Mark Caine

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace

"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." -- James Buckham

"The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers." -- Helen Keller

"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber." -- William Mather Lewis

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." -- Aristotle

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." -- Maya Angelou

"It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive." -- Denis Waitley

"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated - it is finished when it surrenders." -- Ben Stein

"Identify the major obstacle that stands between you and your goal and begin today to remove it." -- Brian Tracy

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball

"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." -- Rubel Shelly

"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it's totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh

"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn