At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.
All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!
Failure is success if we learn from it.
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
There are no problems, only solutions.
We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE!
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
You can only kill disappointment with a new try.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.
The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?
I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
