Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. --Og Mandino
Largest Burden
The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it. ― Jordan B. Peterson
No Regrets
People who say, “I have no regrets,” are not telling the truth. They should truthfully say either, “I avoid thinking about my regrets,” or, “I am content with the regrets I have chosen.” Every choice made in life excludes the opportunity for another experience, given the limits of time and resources. If I choose to go to the mountains this weekend, I cannot at the same time go to the beach. While I may prefer the benefits of going to the mountains, I am still missing out on the benefits of going to the beach. I may choose benefits of self employment, but I miss out on the opportunity to have the relative stability of being an employee of someone else. I may choose the benefits of not marrying, but I miss out on the opportunity of experiencing the depth of committed relationships of a spouse and children in a cohesive family. There is a price to be paid for every choice, an opportunity missed for every opportunity taken, a regret to be had for every regret avoided. The best we can do is to choose our regrets wisely. --Steven R. Hobbs
Cannot Do, Can Do
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” --John Wooden
I've Failed
“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” --Michael Jordan
Strong Soul
Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. --Thomas Carlyle
Suffering and Meaning
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” ― Viktor E. Frankl
Dare Mighty Things
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” --Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing Will Work
“Nothing will work unless you do.” --Maya Angelou
Be Brave
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” --Paulo Coelho
Heaven and Hell
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” ― Carl Jung
Tears and Joy
“Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.” —Psalm 126:5
Breaking Strong
The world breaks everyone, and, afterward, some are strong at the broken places. --Ernest Hemingway
Success, Failure, Courage
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill
Regret
Regret is the experience of acknowledging an unrealized opportunity that could have led to avoiding an unfortunate reality. —Steven R. Hobbs
Prosperity
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. —Rose Kennedy
Stop Signs
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” —Robert H. Schuller
Fail and Achieve
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” --Robert Kennedy
Bad Attitude
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” --Scott Hamilton
Up and Down
“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.” —Frederick Douglass