Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friendsâit gives a lovely light!
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. â¢Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. â¢James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. â¢Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. â¢Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. â¢Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. â¢Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. â¢Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. â¢George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. â¢Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. â¢Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. â¢Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. â¢Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. â¢Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. â¢Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. â¢George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. â¢George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. â¢Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. â¢German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. â¢J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. â¢Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. â¢Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. â¢Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. â¢Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. â¢Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. â¢Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. â¢Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. â¢Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. â¢Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned kneesâ painful, but superficial. â¢H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failureâ which is try to please everybody. â¢Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. â¢Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.
Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
One day the faithful will have it all!
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?