I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

failure, happiness, honesty, self-respect, success, wisdom — November 5, 2008

Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

~ Dan Millman

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empowerment, failure, fear, happiness, motivation, perception, wisdom — October 10, 2008

Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.

~ Bobby Flay

empowerment, entrepreneurship, failure, motivation, success — October 2, 2008

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

empowerment, entrepreneurship, failure, fear, happiness, success, wisdom — September 18, 2008

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

~ Pearl S. Buck

curiosity, entrepreneurship, failure, fear, motivation, perception, success — September 16, 2008

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

~ Mary Kay Ash

entrepreneurship, failure, success, wisdom — September 9, 2008

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you

~ Wayne Dyer

failure, happiness — September 8, 2008

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

~ Confucius

empowerment, failure, fear, motivation, perception, wisdom — August 12, 2008