"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it's successful outcome.
William JamesNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ( Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. (Winston Churchill)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (Shakespeare)
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. (Nora Roberts)
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.(T. S. Elliot)
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. (Aristotle)
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.(Elizabeth Kubler Ross)
The journey is the reward.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou)To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' (George Bernard Shaw)
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foster
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.Cullen Hightower
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable (1776 - 1837)
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