12/18/2006

I liked these quotes they're uplifting...

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link


Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas Edison


An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. Werner Heisenberg, (1901-1976) Physics and Beyond. 1971.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens

Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Corollaries 1. Nobody whom you ask for help will see it. 2. The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Dr. Edwin Land, Source: The Art of Creative Thinking - book by Robert Olson (1986)

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he's forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. Leo Buscalia

The only people who never fail are those who never try. Ilka Chase

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Ashanti proverb

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this:... Failed in business in '31. Defeated for the legislature in '32. Again failed in business in '34. Sweetheart died in '35. Had a nervous breakdown in '36. Defeated in election in '38. Defeated for Congress in '43. Defeated for Congress in '46. Defeated for Congress in '48. Defeated for Senate in '55. Defeated for Vice President in '56. Defeated for Senate in '58. Elected President in '60... This man was Abraham Lincoln.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles F. Kettering

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. Confucius

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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So my fellow Muslims, let us strive and struggle in path of righteousness, and if we fail, let us get up and try again... let us be steadfast! Let us move mountains by removing one stone at a time, let us become Muslims who win the Mercy of Allah, who win the pleasure of Allah, who enter Jannah in sha' Allah.

Here is an interpretation of Allah's words in our Holy Qur'an:

How many of the prophets fought (in Allah.s way),

and with them (fought) Large bands of godly men?

but they never lost heart if they met with disaster in Allah.s way,

nor did they weaken (in will) nor give in.

And Allah Loves those who are firm and steadfast.
( ÓæÑÉ Âá ÚãÑÇä , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter #3, Verse #146)

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