Failure is the First Step to Success

There's so much said these days about things that are failing. As a result of what I've heard, I found myself looking for quotes on Success and Failure. The quotes I found (mostly on the internet) indicate that many of the world's greatest "successes" consider failure their greatest stepping stone(s).


Quotes on Success and Failure

Aeschylus
* When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.
Albert Camus
* Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Einstein
* If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
* Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
* In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
* It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
* Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Alexander Graham Bell
* The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Alexander Hamilton
* Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Anais Nin
* Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anonymous
* A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead.
* In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
* It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
* Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. * When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed.
* So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence.
* Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
* Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule.
* Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.
* Success does not come to those who wait . . . and it does not wait for anyone to come to it.
* Success in our calling is the result of a person’s love of and belief in the work he has undertaken.
* Success is not access to excess.
* The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.
* The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are and thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him .
* The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
* The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success.
* To enter heaven, a man must take it with him.
* Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
* What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?
* Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow's success.
* You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over.
Anthony D’Angelo
* In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Arthur Ashe
* One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur C. Clarke
* The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Ashley Montagu
* The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
B. C. Forbes
* History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Ben Stein
* The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Sweetland
* Success is a journey, not a destination.
Benjamin Disraeli
* The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
* The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
* The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Fairless
* What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.
Benjamin Franklin
* I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong
* The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Bernard Mannesbaruch
* Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
Beverly Sills
* You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Bill Cosby
* I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bourke Cockran
* There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. * Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
Brian Tracy
* Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!
* Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
Bruce Barton
* Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Carl Jung
* Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Charles Kendall Adams
* No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Christopher Morley
* There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Colin Powell
* Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Confucious
* Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Conrad Hilton
* Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Corita Kent
* Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Dale Carnegie
* People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
* Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
* The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dave Checketts
* Success builds character, failure reveals it
David Thomas
* My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward.
Dell Crossward
* Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
Dorothea Brande
* Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dowden
* Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
* We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 (adapted)
Take Time:
Take time to think- It is the source of all power.
Take time to read- It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to play- It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to be quiet- It is the opportunity to seek God.
Take time to be aware- It is the opportunity to help others.
Take time to love and be loved- It is God’s greatest gift.
Take time to laugh- It is the music of the soul.
Take time to be friendly- It is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream- It is what the future is made of.
Take time to pray- It is the greatest power on earth.
Take time to give- It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work- It is the price of success.
There is a time for everything. . . .
Eddie Cantor
* It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Edmund Vance Cook
* Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries. Is not the goal but the exercise.
Edward de Bono
* It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Elaine Maxwell
* My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elbert Hubbard
* A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
* There is no failure except in no longer trying.
English Proverb
* A stumble may prevent a fall.
Erma Bombeck
* Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Euripedes
* Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Ezra Taft Benson
* You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30)
F. M. Gray
* The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
Franklin Field
* The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.
Frederick Smith
* Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
George Allen
* Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us.
George Bernard Shaw
* A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Soros
* Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Goethe
* On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
* The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement.
Gotthold
* Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Gustave Flaubert
* Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationship with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even it it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.
H. W. Arnold
* The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
Haldane
* We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
Havelock Ellis
* It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Henry David Thoreau
* Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry Ford
* The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Herbert B. Swope
* I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is Try to please everybody.
Herman Cain
* Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Irving Berlin
* The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
It's a Wonderful Life
* Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr.
* Failure breeds success –– if you learn from each failure
Jack Mack Carter
* When you have much success, two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got here—namely, by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition.
James Russell Lowell
* Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Jessamyn West
* It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jim Rohn
* If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.
* Life is a unique combination of want to and how to and we need to give equal attention to both.
* Life asks us to make measurable progress in a reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chair so small.
* My goal is to translate response into results. Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.
* Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful: if your income grew and you didn't.
* Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
* Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
* The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.
* There are some things you don't have to know how it works. The main thing is that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.
* Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
* Unless you change how you are ,you will always have what you've got.
* We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
Joachim DuBellay
* Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Johann Sebastian Bach
* I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
John Dewey
* Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John D. Rockefeller
* I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John H. Johnson
* I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.
John Keats
* Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch 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 afterwards carefully avoid.
John Milton
* He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Josephus Daniels
* Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
(Dr.) Joyce Brothers
* Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Laing Burns, Jr.
* Success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road.
* There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit.
Laurence J. Peter
* There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Lloyd Jones
* Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)
Madame de Stael
* The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Mahabharata
* Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family.
Mahatma Gandhi
* My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
* Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Malcolm Forbes
* Failure is success if we learn from it.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
* One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic — something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
Mario Andretti
* Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mark Victor Hansen
* You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
Marshall Field
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success:
1. The value of time.
2. The success of perseverance.
3. The pleasure of working.
4. The dignity of simplicity.
5. The worth of character.
6. The power of kindness.
7. The influence of example.
8. The obligation of duty.
9. The wisdom of economy.
10. The virtue of patience.
11. The improvement of talent.
12. The joy of originating.
Marva Collins
* Success doesn't come to you…you go to it.
Mary Pickford
* If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
May Sarton
* A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
Meimei
* There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
Michael Gerber
* The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Michael Jordan
* I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Mickey Rooney
* You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mike Ditka
* Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mother Teresa
* Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Orison Sweet Marden
* Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.
Oscar Wilde
* Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Paul Cummings
* To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.
Paulo Coelho
* But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Pearl S. Buck
* Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Philip Adams
* Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
* Our duty as men is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Ralph Ellison
* Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
* If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
* Self-trust is the first secret of success.
* There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived —
This is to have succeeded. ~ Emerson
Randy K. Milholland
* We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
Robert Browning
* A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Collier
* You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
* The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
Robert Frost
* The best way out is always through.
Robert F. Kennedy
* Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Roger Ward Babson
* Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Samuel Smiles
* It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
* We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
* The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.
Sherman Filesilver
* Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Stephen Kaggwa
* Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Struther Burt
* Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Sven Goran Eriksson
* The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Swedish Proverb
* God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Theodore Roosevelt
* It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows 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 know neither victory nor defeat. From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
Thomas Alva Edison
* I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
* Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
* The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
(Sir) Thomas Fowell Buxton
* Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Thomas Fuller
* Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas J. Watson
* Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
Tom Krause
* There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Truman Capote
* Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Vincent T. Lombardi
* The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Wallace Stegner
* Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Vince Gill
* Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
W. C. Doane
* Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
Walt Disney
* Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.
Walt Whitman
* Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walter Gagehot
* A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
William Danforth
* History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles.
William Feather
* Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.
William M. Winans
* Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
William Saroyan
* Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Winston Churchill
* Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
* No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
* Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Woody Allen
* Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Zig Zigler
* Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
* Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do the things you need to do when you need to them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do them!
* If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.
* It is easy to get to the top once you get through the crowd at the bottom.
* Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
* Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.
* Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
* Success is not a destination, it's a journey.
* The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't.
* The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job .
* To respond is positive, to react is negative.
* What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.
* You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.