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Quotes #5: Twin Impostors: Famous Quotes on Success & Failure

Failure is 1 Step Away From Success

On our journey home, back to God, we inevitably meet those two impostors: success and failure. We all must deal with them as they help us develop our spiritual muscles and unfold along our path.

Rudyard Kipling said it all: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Success & Failure:

The Definition of Success
The Definition of Failure
In a Perfect Universe, There are No Mistakes or Problems
The Importance of Being Persistent & Taking Risks
In the Day of Adversity, Remember...
Do Your Best: Trust God for the Rest

The Definition of Success

"Success is a journey not a destination."
   - Anonymous

"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather... the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
   - Alex Noble

"Success is to be measured - not so much by the position that we have reached in life - as by the obstacles that we have overcome while trying to succeed."
   - Booker T. Washington

"Success is all about sustaining the focus of your attention on your goal. Winners focus, losers spray."
   - Anonymous

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
   - Eleanor Roosevelt

The Definition of Failure

"Failure is impossible."
   - Susan B. Anthony

"Each failure brings you one step closer to success."
   - Zig Ziglar

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
   - Thomas Alva Edison

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
   - Dottie Walters

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
   - General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir
      in Korea
(often attributed to General Douglas MacArthur)

"A winner loses more often than losers."
   - Anonymous

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you are just standing still."
   - Will Rogers

"Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them."
   - Washington Irving

"We have a thousand reasons for failure but not a single excuse."
   - Rudyard Kipling

In a Perfect Universe, There are No Real Mistakes or Problems

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
   - Anonymous

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift in its' hands."
   - Richard Bach

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity."
   - John F. Kennedy

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
   - Sir Winston Churchill

"What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune."
   - Disraeli ("Endymion")

"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
   - Henry Ford

"I have had l lots of troubles in my life, most of which never happened."
   - Mark Twain

"When you see ten troubles coming down the road, nine will fall by the wayside before they reach you."
   - Bob & Deidre Griswold

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
   - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Importance of Being Persistent & Taking Risks

"Do something and if that does not work do something else… Try, try again."
   - "Frasier Crane"

"Nothing in the world 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. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
   - Calvin Coolidge

"To live is to risk dying. To do is to risk failure.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To love is to risk not being loved in return
To cry is to risk appearing soft and sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement or rejection.
To place your ideas, dreams, and desires before people is to risk ridicule.
The greatest omission in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing gets nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering, pain and sorrow, but he does not learn, grow, live, or love. He is only a slave - chained by safety - locked away by fear. Only a person who is willing to risk, not knowing the results, is alive."
   - Anonymous

"Risk: risk is our business."
   - "Captain James Tiberius Kirk" ("Star Trek: Classic")

"For you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some."
   - Anonymous

"Those that say they never got a chance never took one."
   - Anonymous

"The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball. They fight no fights. They make no mistakes, because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they attempt many things. The person who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never, never tries anything new. He is the brake on the wheel of progress. The very fact that he tries nothing, takes no chances, does nothing except criticize those who try is, perhaps, the biggest possible error in a life-time."
   - Anonymous

In the Day of Adversity, Remember...

"You cannot appreciate the light unless you have lived through the darkness."
   - Anonymous

"I'm not afraid of storms, for with them, I'm learning how to sail my ship."
   - Louisa May Alcott

"It is circumstances which show what men are. Therefore, when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. For what purpose? you might ask. So that you may become an Olympic Conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. ...no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist."
   - Epictetus

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security."
   - Anonymous

"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him."
   - Bible: Ecclesiastes (7:14)

"Even though things do not go as we have planned, they can still work out."
   - "Roz Doyle" (in "Frasier Crane" on the "Memorable Death of Lupe Velez")

"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."
   - Anne Bradstreet

"... if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
   - Dolly Parton

Do Your Best: Trust God for the Rest

"When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God."
   - Sri Harold Klemp

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
   - General George S. Patton

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead."
   - Louisa May Alcott

"No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings."
   - Anonymous

"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies."
   - Emily Dickinson

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not to be waited for, it is to be achieved."
   - William Jennings Bryan

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
   - Theodore Roosevelt

"Love is doing small things with great love."
   - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it."
   - Anonymous

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
   - Marie Curie

"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
   - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There is very little difference in people - but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is ATTITUDE. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
   - W. Clement Stone

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, but as the attitude you bring to life."
   - John Homer Miller

"If you weigh well the strengths of our armies you will see that in this battle we must conquer or die. This is a warrior's resolve. As for the rest (who choose not to fight), they may live or be slaves as the gods decide."
   - Queen Boadaceia of Britain

"Reach for the stars and do not be surprised when you catch one."
   - Anonymous

"We are in the business of exploring!"
   - "Captain Kathryn Janeway" ("Star Trek: Voyager")


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