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OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

"All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them." -- Charles Caleb Colton

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."  --
Glenn Clark

If you want to get out of the pit, stop digging. -- 
Ernesto Santos-DeJesus

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." -- Hermann Hesse

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives." -- Stedman Graham

"Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor." --
Chiang Kai-Shek

"The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers." --
Helen Keller

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." -- Aristotle

OVERCOMING FEAR

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis [Behan]

"We must fight our fear to forge ahead and leave the safety of the ledge." --
Rick Beneteau

"When boundaries are present, there is fear – when wholeness and unity is recognized, fear cannot exist." --
James A. Ray

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." –
George Herman "Babe" Ruth

OVERCOMING FAILURE

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Denis Waitley

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." --
Tom Hopkins

"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes." --
William E. Gladstone

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." -- Mary Pickford