Quotes

Derek’s list of Quotes

The only way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience. The only way to gain experience is to make mistakes.

Show me someone who makes no mistakes and I’ll show you someone who is doing absolutely nothing.

Experience is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you.

Many would say " I’m afraid " if they had enough courage.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve.

Courage is the complement of fear, a person who is fearless cannot be courageous.

The object is not to avoid butterflies in the stomach, but to attempt to get them to fly temporarily in formation.

The truth is obvious, after it’s discovery.

Don’t exaggerate ……… the truth is big enough.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Dammed Lies and Statistics.

A rolling stone gathers momentum.

Climate is what we expect; Weather is what we get.

Fools rush in ………… and get the best seats.

Success is doing what you like to do, and making a living at it.

The difference between winners and losers is not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you get back up.

Give me a gradual improvement rather than a postponed perfection.

If practice makes perfect, then failures - no matter how small or how many - might just be part of success.

All other species play to play, we’re the only species that play to win. Maybe that’s why there are so many losers.

Life is like a fan, if you’re up front it’s a breeze. If you’re at the back it sucks !

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Don’t wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.

A person totally wrapped up in themselves, makes a very small package indeed.

A bad habit is like an iron T - Shirt, bloody hard to get out off.