“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (via Rufus Muturi 9/6/11)
“Don’t despair over what is still left to learn, but marvel at the progress you have made. Growth is a positive thing so keep on keeping on.” ~ Unknown
“All great speakers were bad speakers first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
“You have to keep training if you want to improve. It’s a fair game. If you practice, you improve. You can’t buy it.” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.” ~ Linda Brakeall
“Do not fear mistakes – fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.” ~ Rolfe Kerr
“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes,
but I think it’s more important to learn from successes.
If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.” ~ Stephen Covey
“I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” ~ Frederick B. Wilcox
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” ~ Alfred A. Montapert
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
“Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.” ~ Vince McMahon
