Wayne Gretsky “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“I urge youth to not take counsel of their fears. I hope they will not say, ‘I’m not smart enough to study chemical engineering; hence, I’ll study something less strenuous. I can’t apply myself sufficiently well to study this difficult subject or in this difficult field; hence, I’ll choose the easier way.’ I plead with youth to choose the hard way and to tax their talents, and our Heavenly Father will make them equal to their tasks. If one should stumble, if one should take a course and get less than the A grade desired, I hope such a one will not let it discourage him. I hope that he will rise and try again.” (Thomas S. Monson, “Be Your Best Self,” pg 133).
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910).
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Those who obtain other talents receive more talents in abundance. But those who do not obtain other talents shall lose even the talents they had initially.” (“Parables of Jesus: The Parable of the Talents,” Elder Ronald A. Rasband, August 2003).
“Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “You can do it Now!” Ensign, Nov. 2013, 55)
