Success is simply a matter of luck.
Ask any failure.


Earl Wilson

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.


Queen Victoria

It is all right to have butterflies in your stomach.
Just get them to fly in formation.


Rob Gilbert

Fear is that little darkroom
where negatives are developed.


Michael Pritchard

Fears are learned, and if they are learned then they can be unlearned.

Karl Menninger

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.

Plato

Keep your fears to yourself,
but share your courage with others.


Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot pick cherries with your back to the tree.


John Pierpont Morgan

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.


George Bernard Shaw

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor, to sketch out a map of possibilities - and then to treat them as probabilities.

Bovee

It takes less time to do a thing right
than it does to explain why you did it wrong.


Henry Longfellow

Some people have greatness thrust upon them.
Very few have excellence thrust upon them.


John Gardner

If you do not do it excellently, do not do it at all. Because if it is not excellent, it will not be profitable or fun, and if you are not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

Hope for a miracle. But do not depend on me.


Talmud

Experience is a name men give to their mistakes.


Oscar Wilde

Experience is not what happens to you,
it is what you do with what happens to you.


Aldous Huxley

Experience is what enables you to recognise
a mistake when you make it again.


Earl Wilson

Always listen to experts.
They will tell you what cannot be done and why.
Then do it.


Robert Heinlein

Frustration, Aggressiveness, Insecurity, Loneliness, Uncertainty, Resentment, Emptiness - these are the elements of the failure (F-A-I-L-U-R-E) mechanism. These are the enemy.

Maxwell Matz

Failures are like skinned knees,
painful but superficial, they heal quickly.


Ross Perot

Double your rate of failure. Failure is a teacher - a harsh one, perhaps, but the best. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that is where you will find success. On the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson Sr

Failure is success if we learn from it.


Malcolm Forbes

There is no such thing as an accident,
it is fate renamed.


Napoleon Bonaparte

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.


Duke of Wellington