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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Given a choice, most people would rather have only success and no failure. However, this quote, by the writer Truman Capote, reminds us that failure is what makes success more sweet. This makes sense. Without failure, success is taken for granted. In fact, the idea of success loses much of…
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“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
This quote, by the inventor Thomas Edison, gives us another perspective of failure. Yes, failure means not succeeding at something. However, a deeper and more consequential deffiniton is that of not yet succeeding and giving up. Moreover, giving up when you’re close to success and not knowing it. This is…
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“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”
A phenomenal thing happens as you move toward a horizon. It moves. –And what seemed like a finite view suddenly becomes infinite. As you go as far as you can see, you see even further, as stated in this quote by Zig Ziglar. But more importantly, this quote tells us…
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“Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
The traditional definition of success means attaining or accomplishing something. This is an accurate definition. However, if we limit our idea of success to arriving at a destination, we overlook the little triumphs along the way. Perhaps the most overlooked triumph along the way is the mere act of overcoming…
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“Don’t go back to less, just because you’re too impatient to wait for more.”
There are times when we find ourselves stuck in such a rut that we’d do just about anything to get out of it. We’d do anything for a change. Unfortunately, this desperation can make us blindly run toward things that make us worse off than we already are. This anonymous…
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“Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress, which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.”
Sometimes it takes baby steps to get where we want to be and not a sprint. But when progress is small or incremental, it’s often perceived as insignificant. We not only overlook these baby steps but even beat ourselves up for not having taken bigger strides. We take our steady…
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“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”
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“You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
This quote by the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, is about the fact that life isn’t always fair. Therefore, you don’t always win–you don’t always get what you want. There’s nothing new or groundbreaking about this. From an early age, we begin to learn that we don’t…
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“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the anniversaries of the heart.”
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“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Imagine a life without any challenges what so ever. When challenges are all around us and they’re the only things we see, a life completely free of them is a welcomed thought. Anyone in their right mind would want them completely gone if they had a choice. But imagine a…
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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
More often than not, the dreams we have don’t happen over night. They take time. Sometimes they take A LOT of time, or they take time we don’t have much of. So then, we give up on the dream and abandon all the small steps we can be taking toward…
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“If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.”
It’s common for us to have goals–aspirations for our lives. But the plans we execute to achieve these goals don’t always work out. Unfortunately, things not working out can be more common, or just as common, as when they do. But what is even more unfortunate is the temptation, when…
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
“Half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’”
“Don’t start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.”
