“Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“"The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please…”— Chris Hedges, amazon.com
“Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ev…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”— Coco Chanel, amazon.com
“Failure will teach you things that you can learn no place else. You may find that you have a great work ethic, a strong will, an extra gear, and a network of friends who love you. Really, how else will you know yourself or the strength of your friendships until both have been tested by adversity? Th…”— Jonathan Youshaei, schoolsnapshots.org
“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 fail by default.”— J. K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked thei…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com