Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Everything is an opportunity for me.

Whatever the language, I will make the best of the opportunities coming my way.

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.