"Fall seven times, get up eight. "
                   -- Japanese Proverb 

 Japanese proverb

"Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity."
     -                                                                        --Michael Jackson- Michael Johnson

   I need to remember to be bold. If I'm going to make an error, I'll make it a whopper.
   It takes just about as much apologizing to straighten out a big mistake as it does to take care of a sniveling little thing that might upset some mouthy spectator.

I choose to live my life looking through the windshield, not through the rear view mirror.

After the chess game ends,
 the king and the pawn go 
 into the same box.
                  Italian Proverb

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
                                                                        – St. Francis de Sales,
                                                                           a patron saint of writers.

About St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622), known as the Gentle Saint, was bishop of Geneva. His motto was, "He who preaches with love preaches effectively," and his religious texts, including Introduction to the Devout Life, have resonated with many non-Catholics. Pope Pius IX proclaimed him a patron saint of writers. Some consider him a patron saint of the deaf; he invented a form of sign language to teach a young deaf man how to communicate

 

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
                                                                           – Booker T. Washington

About Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, the influential American educator, was the first African-American to be invited to the White House; he also had tea with Queen Victoria. He was born in slavery in Virginia in 1856. After emancipation, he worked in the salt mines. When he learned of a school that would accept former slaves, he walked much of the 400 miles to get there. He became an outspoken advocate of education and hard work for African-Americans and founded Tuskegee University. He died in 1915.

     I am as rich as I think I am!
I can never earn more in the outside
world than I can earn in my own mind.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
                                                                  – Sir Winston Churchill

About Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill was an extraordinary British prime minister; he laid the groundwork for welfare in England, helped set the boundaries in the Middle East, became a symbol of the resistance against the Nazis in Europe, and was a central force in the Allied victory in World War II. He was born in 1874 near Oxford. He was known for his courage, his stubbornness, and his powerful personality. He was also an accomplished painter and writer. He died in 1965.