“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

“Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools – by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.”

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

“Mistakes matter. How you recover from them matters even more. The best way to handle a mistake is to learn from the mistake. Then you’ll not repeat it nor ever be paralysed by the fear of making another mistake.”

– bkwsu.org

“Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

– Elbert Hubbard

“All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.”

– Pema Chodron

“Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colours are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, ‘my life’. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today – it matters.”

– bkwsu.org

“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles.  It empties today of its strengths.”

– Corrie ten Boom

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

– Yogi Berra