Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet and Essayist

Mark Caine

“Meticulous planning will enable everything a man/woman does to appear spontaneous.”
~Mark Caine

Mary Tyler Moore On Failure and Success

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

Mary Tyler Moore
Actress

David Feherty | Failure = Success

“It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.”

~ David Feherty

Pat Riley

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”

~ Pat Riley

Les Brown

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

Les Brown
Speaker and Author

Leonardo da Vinci

“Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, Inventor, Artist

George Burns

“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”

~ George Burns

Douglas Everett

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

~ Douglas Everett

Joyce Chapman

“If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.”

~ Joyce Chapman