If we refuse to put ourselves in a position to fail... we are never in a position to succeed.   Success and failure are flip sides of the same coin.  Our focus must be on success...  If your focus in on avoiding failure...  you will never experience great success. -- Bruce Castro  

I've missed more than 9000 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. --Michael Jordan

You can get anything out of life you want... if you just help enough other people get what they want! Zig Ziglar

Consistently going the extra mile guarantees great accomplishment... Fortunately, that extra mile never has traffic jams!. Bruce Castro

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. --

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. --Booker T. Washington

It's a fact... You will never FALL if you never CLIMB. But where is the joy in living your life on the ground?  A life spent going with the flow, experiences neither true success nor enduring happiness...  Realize, even a DEAD FISH can swim DOWN STREAM! The key to a better future, a fulfilling life and continued happiness is ACTION.  Life is a wonderful game... but playing the game is more enjoyable than just watching it... And, remember, it's never too late to get in the game!  Bruce Castro

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein

"GREAT IDEAS ARE USELESS... UNLESS COMBINED WITH POSITIVE ACTION".
Think about it... in your lifetime, how many great ideas have you or someone you know come up with?  And even told friends about?  But it was done over a beer and no one did anything abou it...   Then later you saw someone on Oprah making their fortune off "your" idea?  This scenario plays out over and over.  What's the lesson?

• IT'S NEVER JUST THE IDEA THAT IMPORTANT!...   It's the action that matters!  Have an idea? ACT ON IT!  See an Opportunity?  ACT!  It's never too late to become who you were meant to be or who you can be!--  Bruce Castro

It is never too late to become what you might have been. --George Eliot

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. --Benjamin Franklin

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. --Les Brown

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. --Henry Ford

Being willing is not enough; we must do. --Leonardo da Vinci

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. --Erica Jong

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. --Aristotle

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. --Mark Twain

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. --Zig Ziglar

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. --Steve Jobs

It's hard to move ahead if you are always looking behind.
B Castro

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. --Napoleon Hill

Believe you can and you're halfway there. --Theodore Roosevelt

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. --Albert Einstein

•  In other words, focus on the service you provide, not the reward.  click here.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. --Florence Nightingale

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. --George Addair

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. --Wayne Gretzky

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. --Babe Ruth

Fall seven times and stand up eight. --Japanese Proverb

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. --W. Clement Stone

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. --Charles Swindoll

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. --Chinese Proverb.

An unexamined life is not worth living. --Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up. --Woody Allen

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. --Vince Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. --Stephen Covey

• With few exceptions, our lives are not determined by where we started... ... it's what you do, once you choose to begin the race.  We don't always choose to join the race at the same time in our lives... but when we do, is when we take control of our lives.  Realize, From this day forward, your future, depends on the decisions you make and the actions you take.  Better decisions, better choices, better actions equals better outcomes!

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. --Christopher Columbus

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. --Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. --Jim Rohn

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. --Jesus

How can you successfully sail into the future... if you are constantly focusing on the past?  B Castro

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. --Erma Bombeck

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. --Booker T. Washington

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. --Plato

Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thou  shall progress. --Maimonides

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. --Arthur Ashe

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. --John Lennon

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. --Anne Frank