Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes, called experience, will lead us to success. (Denis Waitley, motivational speaker) No one likes to make mistakes. We don’t start out any day or any project with the intention of making...
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake, 18th-19th century English poet. Blake wrote, “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all...
Your own resolution (persistence) to succeed is more important than any other one thing. (Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States) Consider the journey of the gangly farm boy from Kentucky to the White House, and you must be impressed by his perseverance....
You can’t leave a footprint that lasts if you’re always walking on tiptoe. (Marion Blakey, business executive) We sometimes say that someone is “tip-toeing around,” implying that maybe they are avoiding reality or a possible unfavorable reaction to their activity....
Focus on the target, not the adversity. (Tom Sheard and Wally Armstrong, authors) These authors were relating lessons about life to be learned from golf with particular applications to spiritual life. This is an especially pertinent axiom for all of us who have faced...
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” (Brian Tracy, Canadian-born American motivational speaker and author) In Tracy’s view, apparently, success is not so much what you may...
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning within your own. (Eleanor Doan, author) If we have an idea or opinion that we want other people to be enthusiastic about, we need to show an obvious excitement that will be contagious. Half-hearted...
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. (G. K. Chesterton, 19th-20th centuries English writer and critic) Truth is always true, and untruth is always false. If some untruth might be accepted as truth by some, it does not thereby become...
There are no mistakes. Only opportunities. (Tina Fey, actress) Actually, there are mistakes; regrettably, we all make them. But the implication of Fey’s comment can be of great value. We must not let our missteps defeat us. They should be learning...
Tis the good reader that makes the good book . . . (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist) Emerson continued: “. . . in every book he finds passages which see confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.” Readers are...
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. (Margaret Lee Runbeck, early 20th century author) The ability to communicate by speaking is a wonderful gift of God. Friends talk at length, but as...
Leaders aren’t people who are served but who serve the people around them. (Daniel Reinhardt, High School salutatorian) This high school graduate shared with his classmates a very important lesson that many young adults have yet to learn. Graduates today are too often...