Today’s quote reminds us that there is no shame in falling, only in staying down.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
Where do you pick yourself up each time you fall? Give yourself some credit — you deserve it.
Where do you stay down? What could you change to help yourself get up each time? Change a belief? An association? A relationship? Your environment?
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle Self-explanatory…
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James Michener As hard as it is to try something new, it’s pretty darn hard to try it a third or fourth time. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to try, try again, and again, and again . . . . But sometimes…
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. – J. Sidlow Baxter This week has been a bit about language and meaning so I had* to share this quote. A key question is: what is our attitude towards…
The idea of balance is prevalent for people today, Specifically, the meme of work/life balance. Many see this as a call to allocate one’s life in certain proportions. As if there is an ideal amount of time for each area that will “balance” the scales, and presumably, result in happiness and fulfillment at work and…
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde Success is assembling certain components of thought and action in a certain order. “Failure” is what you get when you have the wrong components, or the wrong order, or both. Either way, you get results. Just keep tweaking until…
Everybody’s heard the saying “That which does not kill you makes you stronger,” Nietzsche I believe said it, or something very similar. It’s wrong though, or at least woefully incomplete. (Or, it’s incomplete in the way we use the words these days.) Nowadays people think that if bad stuff happens to you, you get stronger….