Overcome Failure

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
Helen Keller

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character anyone can give. Do not let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you, go on with your life as though nothing unpleasant has happened to you.
W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.
Corrie ten Boom

I learned the lesson about not fearing failure from my dad because I’ve seen him fail and know what a great man he is. Losing a campaign does not mean losing your integrity, or losing your decency or losing his standing in my eyes or in the eyes of honorable people. We must take risks in order to succeed and if it doesn’t work out for the moment, life itself will work out in the long run.
George W. Bush

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Wealth Builder

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage.
Samuel Reyburn

He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep adding little to little, and soon there will be a great heap.
Virgil

Financial freedom comes to people who save ten percent or more of their income throughout their lifetime.
Brian Tracy

Never spend as much money as you earn. The smaller your expenditures are in proportion to your earnings the sooner you will become rich.
E.W. Scripps

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Discover Your Purpose

If you can identify what you still have energy to do while suffering from burnout, you’re well on your way to knowing what your life purpose is.
John Stanko

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.
Jack Canfield

What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.
Westminster Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church

You can easily take your purpose for granted because to you it’s second nature. What do you do that causes people to say, “Wow, how did you do that?”? You probably reply, “It was nothing.” In a sense, it was nothing to you because it was consistent with your purpose.
John Stanko

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The Power of Faith

Stepping out in faith always brings clarification of God’s plan.
Charles Swindoll

Everything is possible for him who believes.
Mark 9:23

Faith sings in your heart, no matter what assaults your soul.
Lester Sumrall

Deep faith eliminates fear.
Lech Walesa

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
James Clarke

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The Power of Commitment

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping-stones of genius.
Elbert Hubbard

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the passion with which you take hold, but upon the bull-doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
A.B. Meldrum

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender.
Bing Crosby

As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
James 5:11

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A Child’s Happiness

The more parents try to make their children happy, the more they prevent their children from learning how to make themselves happy.
John Rosemond

To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley

Your most important goal as a parent is not to make your children happy on a short-term basis. It’s to raise capable, responsible human beings. There are many times when your children will be unhappy with your decisions. Usually, this means you’ve made the right decision.
Elizabeth Pantley

Parents who don’t make happiness a goal but who concentrate on the basics – making sure their child works hard in school and takes his chores and responsibilities seriously – will produce a child whose talents and values will bring him success.
Marilu Henner

Mother had a lot to say. This does not mean she was always talking but that we children felt the wells she drew upon were deep, deep, deep. Her theme was happiness: what it was, what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.
Mary Lavin

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Mothers

Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.
Katharine Hathaway

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln

I am amazed (and secretly delighted) at how many people stop me to have a look at my baby. Motherhood seems to break all social barriers as conversations with strangers of all ages and backgrounds evolve.
Simone Bloom

You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teachers – my mother.
Sir Winston Churchill, on being asked to check a list of those who had taught him

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There’s no way of sustaining our children if we don’t first rescue ourselves. I don’t call that selfish behavior. I call it love.
Joyce Maynard

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