The following quotes have validated something I have long believed. That simply put, failure means someone who has attempted to do something. Failure is a sign of courage not a badge of shame. Rather embrace and leverage failure as a motivator for success.

1. You don’t have to be great to start, but you so have to start to be great.” - Zig Ziglar
2. “When you’re passionate about your job and career, success comes naturally and peacefully in both your personal and professional life” - Tom Powner
3. “The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline” – Steve Smith
4. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~ Maria Robinson
5. We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”  – M. Scott Peck
6. “If everybody’s thinking alike, then somebody’s not thinking.” - George S. Patton
7. “Don’t be defined by your past, your past is the tutor of your present and is always preparing you for new experience. Forget about disappointment or any past mistakes that is keeping you from moving forward. It's never too late for a new beginning.” – Kemmy Nola   Inspiring business performance. See our clients Go>
8. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it” – Jonathan Winters
9. “The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning” – Ivy Baker Priest
10. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama
11. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” - Benjamin Disraeli
12. “Don’t fall before you’re pushed” – English Proverb
13. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” - Alexander Graham Bell    Leading people. Leading organizations. See how Go>
14. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning” - John F Kennedy
15. “Positive things happen to positive people.” - Sarah Beeny
16. “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” - Dolly Parton
17. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Elliot“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.” - Betty White
18. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam
19. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” - Confucius
20. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” - John F Kennedy

I am Jim Woods, President of Woods Kovalova Group. I am an elite coach who successfully transformed his life from homelessness to teaching university.  I’ve built my thriving practice around living a whole and high-performance life – based on relevant, cutting-edge research and information. I love to coach my clients to success, to achieve the life they truly want, through programs which not only match their goals and personalities but also educate and empower them to reach their highest potential, to be high performers. I am an author, keynote speaker, grandfather and newlywed to my longtime business partner. See my clients. Need help overcoming an obstacle that has you stuck? I can help you confidentially. Nothing works until we do. Get started now. Click here.