Double Your Rate of Failure

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

-Thomas J. Watson

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. -George Patton

Work

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -John Rockefeller

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~ Thomas Edison

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
~ Mohandas Gandhi

Do something every day that u don't want to do; this is the golden rule 4 acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving. -Dennis Waitley

Unruffled Calm of Nature

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

- Jonathan Edwards

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra

Resolutely Look Conditions In The Face

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Progress

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.