Achievement through it all

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so."

Marcia Wieder

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can."
Arthur Ashe

A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

~   John Burroughs

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison

"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement."
Napoleon Hill

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter


I hope when you count the stars you begin with yourself, and may you embrace the moonlight with your dreams.  ~Dodinsky

Lets be positive

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Albert Einstein

Mistake to avoid

William Arthur Ward,
Up Words

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The mistakes to avoid:

·         Remorse over yesterday's failures.

·         Anxiety over today's problems.

·         Worry over tomorrow's uncertainty.

·         Waste of the moment's opportunity.

·         Procrastination with one's present duty.

·         Resentment of another's success.

·         Criticism of a neighbor's imperfection.

·         Impatience with youth's immaturity.

·         Skepticism of our nation's future.

·         Unbelief in God's providence.

• If you wish to have something you have never had be greatly willing to do
        something you have never done

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

Thomas Simmons

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude,

you were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” -Zig Ziglar

But what if winning doesn't come?

Well:

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
– Thomas A. Edison

"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 Weedn

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

– Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

– Beverly Sills

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

– Isak Dinesen