Endurance
Channel anxiety into creative force for achievement so that, when
we are frustrated, we become more productive.
Every day in
Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than
the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning
a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle
or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you
are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you’d better
be running!
--
Cited in Media Management Newsletter
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
You can not discover new oceans unless you have the courage
to leave the shore.
You measure the success of a person not by how well he performs
when the wind is at his back, but how he performs when the wind
is in his face.
You're handed life on a silver platter, but it's
yours to tarnish or serve from.
Luck, it's the uphill trip that gets you to the top; it's the
ability to recognize an opportunity and take it; it's taking a
risk that others turn down; it's seeing a result that others don't
see; its knowing that out of adversity comes something constructive.
The challenge of change is to change rather than challenge
the change.
There are two kinds old people-those that tell all the reasons
why things can't be done and those who go out and do it.
Which are you?
You fail many
times, but you’re not a failure until
you begin to blame somebody else.
Is there anyone you know who hardly ever fails, but also rarely
succeeds? Instead, they seek comfortable situations where there
is no risk or danger of defeat.
It is your ability to fail and continue trying which determines
your succeed in any challenge of life.
Michelangelo said, "If you knew how hard I worked you would
not consider me a genius."
In these challenging times of crises, complexity and competition,
we need to remember that most great people have suffered through
adversity before they have fulfilled their potential.
--
Art Mortell
Persistence: Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with
talent. Genius will not; Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; The world is full of education derelicts. Persistence
and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised
as insoluble problems.
No failure is ever final, neither is any success.
When you think
you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember
this -- you haven’t.
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach
of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are
beyond the need of God's grace.
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes
you weep.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to
make them all yourself.
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and
men crooked.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always
been times like these.
ANYWAY
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered,
LOVE THEM ANYWAY
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives,
DO GOOD ANYWAY
If you are successful,
You win false friends and true enemies,
SUCCEED ANYWAY
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow,
DO GOOD ANYWAY.
Honestly and frankness make you vulnerable,
BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight.
BUILD ANYWAY.
People really need help
But may attack you if you help them,
HELP THEM ANYWAY.
Give the world the best you have
And you’ll get kicked in the teeth,
GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU’VE GOT ANYWAY. |
Problems are guidelines, Not stop signs.
Every Adversity Hides A Possibility.
How do you move a mountain? You move a mountain one truckload
at a time. You chisel away one chip at a time.
Always use the word
impossible with the greatest caution.
Courage does
not always roar, sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of
the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Without stress there is no progress.
Shake it off
One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for
hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the
animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't
worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over
and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then,
to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer
finally looked down the well and was astonished with what he saw. With every
shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He
would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued
to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step
up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge
of the well and trotted off! Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds
of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a
step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest
wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up! |
A purge makes the guts clean and strong.
It is not easy to keep on, keeping on.
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