Permanatizing Success
"Yes we can!" -Barack Obama
"Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
-Plato
Temporalizing Failure
"The path to our destination is not always a straight on. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
-Barbara Hall
"Succuss is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill
Practicing Momentism
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."-Sir Winston Churchill
"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
-Mignon McLaughlin
Taking on Challenges and Overcoming Difficulties
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
-Mark Twain
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
-John Wayne
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
-John Quincy Adams
Givers Gain
"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
-Albert Schweitzer
General Optimism
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
-Colin Powell
The Value of Humor in Maintaining Optimism
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."
-Mark Twain
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's abusrdities by thinking absurdly about them."
-Lewis Mumford
Praise Yourself
"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."-Mark Twain
Pessimizing Success by Discounting the Positive
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
-Mark Twain