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31 August 98 Every Hongkonger believes that he can become a millionaire. There is that spirit of adventure, that willingness to take risks, to lose everything and to try again, that makes them so different and so successful. (Lee Kuan Yew, Senior Minister of Singapore, in his speech, Who Dares, Win.) Dream what you dare to dream. Do what you dare to do. And be what you dare to be. (Dr. Walter Doyle Staples)
29~30 August 98 - Weekend Special Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! (Anne Frank)
28 August 98 We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. And probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. (Samuel Smiles) Most people make a common mistake...by thinking of failure as the enemy of success...You've got to put failure to work for you...Go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you'll find success - on the other side of failure. (Thomas Watson of IBM)
27 August 98 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. (Unknown) Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. Do it now! (W. Clement Stone)
26 August 98 - Special The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate. (Chinese Proverb) The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. (Ramakrishna) In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (William Osler) (For a special friend) There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. (Douglas MacArthur)
25 August 98
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. (Alvin Toffler)
24 August 98 There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learnt, the closer you are to your outcome. (Anthony Robbins) Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. (Dale Carnegie)
23 August 98 Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. (H. Stanley Judd) I do not fear failure. I only
fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying,
"Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. (Alan Alda) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)
21 August 98 I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby) I honestly think it is better to be a
failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. (George
Burns)
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you get to the end of your rope, tie a
knot and hang on.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!" (Richard M. Devos) As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. (Denis Waitley)
18 August 98 Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. (Denis Waitley) The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. (Anonymous)
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. (Lao-Tzu 600 B. C.) The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
16 August 98 The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things. (Gen. David M. Shoup) It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better. (Jane Cahill Pfeiffer)
15 August 98 When a true samurai goes into battle he always prepares for death - but more often than not it is the enemy who meets death. (Source not known) The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. (Roosevelt)
14 August 98 It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. (Moula Le Guin) Failure is in a sense the highway to
success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after
what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall
afterward carefully avoid. (Keats)
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. (Eileen Caddy) Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Enica Jang)
12 August 98 Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare) Opportunities will fall in the way of everyone but not everyone will use them. (Lee Kong Chian)
11 August 98 Opportunities of all sorts abound in troubled times...good times are good but bad times are still better. (Konosuke Matsushita) It does not matter whether a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping) 10th August 98 We sow our thoughts and we reap our actions. We sow our actions and we reap our habits. We sow our habits and we reap our character. We sow our character and we reap our destiny. (Anonymous) By all means marry; if you get a good wife,
you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates) 9th August 98 When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eyes is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself. (Gilbert Arland) What would you attempt to do if you know you
could not fail? (Dr. Robert Schuller) 8 August 98 When we are born each of us is given a white piece of blank paper to write down whatever that we want. Some wrote only a little, some wrote alot but some just allow others to write for them. (Billi) It wasn't that the British soldiers were any braver than the French soldiers, but they just wouldn't give up, they fought on! (Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengtened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. (Helen Keller) Failure is only the opportunity to begin
again more initelligently. (Henry Ford) 6 August 98 A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. (Anonymous) There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Success is a journey not a
destination - half the fun is getting there. The way I see it, if you want
the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Every failure is a lesson that drives a person to try a new approach never tried before. (Billi) Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing,
wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only
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