Quotation Saturday

FEAR OF FAILURE

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
--William Shakespeare
 

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
--Napoleon Hill
 

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
--Newell D. Hillis
 

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
--Thomas Bailey Aldrich

GOALS
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
--Henry Ford
 

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
--Seneca

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
--Burmese Saying

IMAGINATION
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
--Alexander Pope
 

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
--Latin Proverb
 

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.
--Henry Ward Beecher
 

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
--Horace