Quotes By Catogory
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
—Roy T. Bennett
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” —Paulo Coelho
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
—Helen Keller
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
—Paulo Coelho
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
—Winston Churchill
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
―J.K. Rowling
“I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
—Neal Shusterman
“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
―Michael Jordan
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
—Coco Chanel
“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.”
―Michelle Obama
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
—Henry Ford
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
―Confucius
“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
—C.S. Lewis
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
―Malcolm X
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
—Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
—Denis Waitley
“Falling down doesn’t make one a failure, it’s your ability to rise that determines the next dimension”.
― B.S.O. Kpechi
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
—Napoleon Hill
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
―Arianna Huffington
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
—Johnny Cash
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
―Eloise Ristad
“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
—Zig Ziglar
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
—Ken Robinson
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
―Thomas Edison
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.”
—J.K. Rowling
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
—Gena Showalter
“It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.”
―Lupita Nyong’o
“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
—Richard Yates
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
―Bill Gates
“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be”
—John Wooden
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
―John F. Kennedy
“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
―C.R. Strahan
“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
―Sir. Francis Bacon
“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”
―Mother Teresa
“When you forgive, you save yourself from the fire of hatred”.
―Adeep
“The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.”
―Louise Hay
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you”.
―Lewis B. Smedes
“Take forgiveness slowly. Don’t blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.”
―Yoko Ono
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
―Nelson Mandela
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
―John F. Kennedy
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”.
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time, they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them”.
―Oscar Wilde
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
―Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget”.
―Thomas Szasz
“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone”.
―Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Forgiveness is the best revenge”.
–Imam Ali
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
―Corrie Ten Boom
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness”.
―Marianne Williamson
“I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself”.
–T.D. Jakes
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
―Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
―Catherine Ponder
“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.”
―Pope John Paul II
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness”.
―Josh Billings
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future”.
―Bernard Meltzer
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers”.
–Robert Quillen
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself”
―Publilius Syrus
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
―Robert Jordan
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
―Maria Edgeworth
“If it feels good, do it, and if it doesn’t, don’t do it.”
―Martin Meadows
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
―Bernard M. Baruch
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”.
―Vicktor Emil Frankl
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”.
―Abraham Lincoln
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
―Charlotte Bronte
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life”.
―Bob Marley
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
―Aung San Suu Kyi
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
―Benjamin Franklin
“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
―Peter Marshall
“A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom”.
―Malcolm X
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
―George Washington
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
―George Orwell
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
―William Faulkner
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
―Albert Einstein
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind”.
―Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
―Herbert Hoover
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it”.
―George Bernard Shaw
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
―Nelson Mandela
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”.
―Marcel Proust
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
—Muhammad Ali
“If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.”
―Steve Maraboli
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
—Thomas J. Watson
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship”.
―Saint Francis de Sales
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
—Elisabeth Foley
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
—Anais Nin
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
—Tennessee Williams
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
—Carl W. Buechner
“A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out”.
―Gary Moore
“It’s not that those diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds”.
―Gina Barreca
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over”.
―Octavia Butler
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
—Dr. Seuss
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you”.
―Misty Copeland
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met”.
―William Butler Yeats
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun”.
―Charles R. Swindoll
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing”.
―Baltasar Gracian
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
—Amy Poehler
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
—Audrey Hepburn
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand”.
―Henri Nouwen
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity”.
―Ulysses S. Grant
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth”.
―Charles Darwin
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief”.
―Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed”.
―Khalil Gibran
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
—Walter Winchell
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely”.
―Pam Brown
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
—Oprah Winfrey
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”.
―Helen Keller
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood”.
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
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