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“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” – Unknown
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.” – Jerome Fleishman
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham
“When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there.” – Unknown
“There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” – Washington Irving
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.” – Henry Beecher
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Boom
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.” – John Aughey
“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.” – Vince Lombardi
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D Roosevelt
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” – Latin Proverb
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
“This too shall pass.” – Persian Sufi Poets
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.” – Jennifer Grahnolm
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” – Rainer Rilke
“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.” – Wally Amos
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.” – Edmund Burke
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” – Garrison Keillor
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Never regret something that once made you smile.” – Amber Deckers