Self-trust is the first secret of success.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
-Nelson Boswell
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
-Oliver Goldsmith
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. -Will Durant
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
-Robert Hillyer
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
-Unknown
To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone.
-David J. Schwartz
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind!"
-Dr. Theoder Seuss Geisel
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
- Woodrow T.Wilson
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
- Brian Tracy
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
- Richard M. DeVos
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be meaningful, must be a personal thing.
-Howard Whitman
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
- Timothy Luce
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
- Les Brown
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Mary Bryant
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
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Marcus T. Cicero
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
- Robert Cody
What a new face courage puts on everything!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am more important than my problems.
- Jose Ferrer
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
And finally, my favorite of all that has always stuck with me:
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Do the thing you fear the most...and the death of that fear is
certain.
-Emerson
In order to reach new lands, we must be willing to lose site of the
shoreline for a long time...
-Unknown
