Quotation Saturday

RISK-TAKING

"Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness."
~ Brian Tracy

"Dare to risk public criticism."
~Mary Kay Ash

"Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all."
~ Harvey Mackay

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation."
~ Pearl S. Buck

PARENTING 101

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
~Roger Lewin

If I could say just one thing to parents, it would be simply that a child needs someone who believes in him no matter what he does.
~Alice Keliher

FEAR OF FAILURE

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
~Henry Ford
 
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
~Vincent van Gogh
 
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~Oliver Goldsmith
 
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
~Nelson A. Rockefeller

ON WRITING
 
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." Gloria Steinem
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make." 
~Truman Capote

"Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together." 
~Buffon

"Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory." 
~Chateaubriand

"You must write for yourself, above all. That is [your] only hope of creating something beautiful." 
~Gustave Flaubert