Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Cynthia Kersey: Life Quotes

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

-- R. I. Fitzhenry

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

-- Bernard Edmonds

Failure is success if we learn from it.

-- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new.

Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion.

Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not!

Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

--John W. Hanley

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. /span>

-- Abraham Lincoln

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

-- Earl Nightingale

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