"Bring it on!" - me
"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried" - Anon
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - Seneca
"Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - saw it on a bumper sticker.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky
"You do not find the happy life - you make it." - President Monson
"Keep moving forward" - Meet the Robinsons
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?" - Spencer Johnson (Who Moved My Cheese)
"Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn" - Elder Neal A. Maxwell
"If you've never failed, you've never lived." - title of an online video clip
"We cannot change the cards we're delt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you." - Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture
"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Allen Saunders
"Was I disappointed? Yes. Was I defeated? Absolutely not!" - Elder Uchtdorf
"There are a million wonderful girls out there, but what makes one special is that you choose her." - Jason Painter
"Your decision to think right, choose right, and do right will rarely if ever be the easiest course to follow." - President Monson
'His father told him as a boy, "Never worry about the future. Just do your homework, and we'll see how the test goes tomorrow." ' - Henry Eyring to his son.
"We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect." - Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”- Howard Thurman
"... but once there has been genuine illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts" - Elder Holland - Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence.
"I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder." — Emma Watson
"In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, who is constantly critical of you, who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without having the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.
Members of the First Presidency have taught that "any form of physical or mental abuse to any woman is not worthy of any priesthood holder" and that no "man who holds the priesthood of God [should] abuse his wife in any way, [or] demean or injure or take undue advantage of [any] woman"--and that includes friends, dates, sweethearts, and fiancées, to say nothing of wives (James E. Faust, "The Highest Place of Honor," Ensign, May 1988, 37, and Gordon B. Hinckley, "Reach Out in Love and Kindness," Ensign, November 1982, 77). " - Elder Holland - How Do I Love Thee
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for the masses, what they could and should do for themselves." -Abraham Lincoln
"Every good member of a given species can always find its equivalent value in bad members of the same species. For example, a good horse is worth one hundred dinars, but five bad horses are also worth one hundred dinars. The same goes for camels, and the same for different kinds of clothing. The only exception is the son of Adam, for, truly, one thousand bad men will never be worth the same as one good man." - Usama Ibn Munqidh - The Book of Contemplation
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt
"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried" - Anon
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - Seneca
"Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - saw it on a bumper sticker.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky
"You do not find the happy life - you make it." - President Monson
"Keep moving forward" - Meet the Robinsons
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?" - Spencer Johnson (Who Moved My Cheese)
"Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn" - Elder Neal A. Maxwell
"If you've never failed, you've never lived." - title of an online video clip
"We cannot change the cards we're delt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you." - Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture
"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Allen Saunders
"Was I disappointed? Yes. Was I defeated? Absolutely not!" - Elder Uchtdorf
"There are a million wonderful girls out there, but what makes one special is that you choose her." - Jason Painter
"Your decision to think right, choose right, and do right will rarely if ever be the easiest course to follow." - President Monson
'His father told him as a boy, "Never worry about the future. Just do your homework, and we'll see how the test goes tomorrow." ' - Henry Eyring to his son.
"We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect." - Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”- Howard Thurman
"... but once there has been genuine illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts" - Elder Holland - Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence.
"I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder." — Emma Watson
"In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, who is constantly critical of you, who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without having the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.
Members of the First Presidency have taught that "any form of physical or mental abuse to any woman is not worthy of any priesthood holder" and that no "man who holds the priesthood of God [should] abuse his wife in any way, [or] demean or injure or take undue advantage of [any] woman"--and that includes friends, dates, sweethearts, and fiancées, to say nothing of wives (James E. Faust, "The Highest Place of Honor," Ensign, May 1988, 37, and Gordon B. Hinckley, "Reach Out in Love and Kindness," Ensign, November 1982, 77). " - Elder Holland - How Do I Love Thee
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for the masses, what they could and should do for themselves." -Abraham Lincoln
"Every good member of a given species can always find its equivalent value in bad members of the same species. For example, a good horse is worth one hundred dinars, but five bad horses are also worth one hundred dinars. The same goes for camels, and the same for different kinds of clothing. The only exception is the son of Adam, for, truly, one thousand bad men will never be worth the same as one good man." - Usama Ibn Munqidh - The Book of Contemplation
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt
