Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.
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Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.
Don__ ever perceive other people__ success as your own failure.
True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed
All people who made it at one time thought they could never make it.
A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do, it's up to you to make out which one you are.
Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.
The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.
Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.
Respect people who never afraid of failure and working hard to achieve goal. But I respect more those who support them in this situation.
I don't believe in failure. Whenever you take action and do something, irrespective of the outcome, you have succeeded by simply doing and trying. The universe rewards action. So believe in yourself and do whatever it is you want to do.
Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.
If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow.
Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
If you believe in your abilities, it will amaze you what you can accomplish.