The mountains are calling and I must go.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Don't cheat yourself out the possibility of the potential that’s on the other side of commitments. 

Short cuts make long delays.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall short of your potential.

The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.

Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.

There is no such thing as winning, there is only advancing. 

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. 

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

Obstacles are the cost of greatness.

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. 

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Your first step to success is having the confidence that you will succeed.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Truth is pure awareness.

Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Only climbers get to the top.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I can choose to perceive every circumstance as an opportunity to grow and stay on my mission. And if this opportunity is also challenging, that’s even better. I have a chance to rise up--like a kite rises against the wind. If there’s no wind the kite can’t fly. Have you ever tried to fly a kite when there’s no wind at all? Have you ever tried to have a great life when there’s no challenge? If there’s no challenge for me I cannot become stronger. I cannot grow.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery

You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. To refuse the call means stagnation.
What you don’t experience positively you will experience negatively. You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path.
If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.
The goal of the hero trip down to the jewel point is to find those levels in the psyche that open, open, open, and finally open to the mystery of your Self being Buddha consciousness or the Christ.

That’s the journey.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

Any search for a "pain-free existence" is doomed to failure.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

He responded with a classic SEAL way of looking at adversity: in the middle of a period of adversity, we have an opportunity to stress-test our own belief system.

The next time life presents you with a challenge, don’t simply assume everything will work out. Don’t tell yourself you can’t do it. Just evaluate the situation. Figure out what you can accomplish right now. Then draw your line. When you cross that line, draw another one. And keep going.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

There are no failures, only quitters.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Life is a struggle and the potential for failure is ever present, but those who live in fear of failure, or hardship, or embarrassment will never achieve their potential. Without pushing your limits, without occasionally sliding down the rope headfirst, without daring greatly, you will never know what is truly possible in your life.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. 

It’s not the failure that’s desirable, it’s the dauntless effort despite the risks, the discovery of what works and what doesn’t that sometimes only failure can reveal.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and turning adversity to my advantage. That said, there are times when the body needs to heal, but those are ripe opportunities to deepen the mental, technical, internal side of my game. When aiming for the top, your path requires an engaged, searching mind. You have to make obstacles spur you to creative new angles in the learning process. Let setbacks deepen your resolve. You should always come off an injury or a loss better than when you went down.

The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible.

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

Replace “This project is so big and important” with “I can take one small step.

Just because you find more work and problems on your path than you anticipated doesn’t mean that you made a wrong choice or a mistake!

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong.

If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

No tree can grow to Heaven unless it’s roots reach down to Hell.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.

If you want to go big, failing repeatedly is part of the deal.

Exceptional people really do come to believe that the journey is more important than the destination.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Artist get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning from their work.

Life is growth. You grow or you die.

Life is growth. You grow or you die.

What is grit, really? It's a word that's been used to describe everything under the sun, but it means something specific: when things get hard, you push harder; when you fail, you get back up stronger; when you don't see results, you don't get discouraged, but you just continue to pound away day, after day, after day, with relentlessness, consistency, heart, and passion -- that's grit.

The research showed that experts—people who were masters at a trade—vastly preferred negative feedback to positive. It spurred the most improvement. That was because criticism is generally more actionable than compliments.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

...there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time―longer than most people imagine....you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people....Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it...it's doing what you love, but not just falling in love―staying in love.

If you’re not uncomfortable, then you’re probably stuck at an "acceptable level."

The climb to the top is arduous and steep. People become exhausted, frustrated, and disenchanted, and are often tempted to give up. Genuine acts of caring draw people forward.

Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish).

Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Becoming is better than being.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Greatness rarely happens on accident. If you want to achieve excellence, you will have to act like you really want it. How? Quite simply: by dedicating time and energy into consistently doing what needs to be done.

Because in our never-ending search for the next destination, we miss out on one of life’s great truths, which is, just as the legendary philosopher Hannah Montana said, “It’s all about the climb.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.

Failure shows us the way—by showing us what isn’t the way.

To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

In truth, life is based upon failures. If you don’t fail, you’re probably not challenging yourself enough.

The paradox is that sometimes you have to get worse before you get better.

Only climbers get to the top.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn. 

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

These achievements ring hollow, because what matters is the journey, and there was no journey. Instant success imparts nothing of any real or lasting value. No adversity has been confronted and handled because everything came fast and easy. When adversity does arrive, and it always does, someone who has never encountered it before will have no clue what to do in response.

In reality, failure is simply feedback. It’s not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable. Failure (or feedback) gives you the opportunity to look at what’s not working and figure out how to make it work.

We only have one rule. You can’t stop. You can go as slow as you need to go, but you cannot stop. You can never drop out.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Enterprise is always better than ease. Every time we choose to do less than we possibly can, it affects our self-confidence. If we keep doing a little less every day, we are also becoming a little less every day. Can you imagine what you’d end up being after ten years of doing a little less every day? It’s devastating! Think about it… doing less could ruin your life!

You always recognize a great champion ... [by] how they come back from a loss. 

If you don’t own the goal and it doesn’t come from your dream, then you won’t have the toughness to persevere when the going gets tough. And I will promise you that the going will get tough. There is never an exception—everyone who wins must push through obstacles, lots of them. You simply will not get up at dawn for your three-mile run because your wife wants you thinner. Big goals require big backbone—wimps need not apply. 

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do. 

Setbacks are your opportunity to bounce back—to make a comeback! 

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. 

Adversity is the fertilizer to growth. 

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.

Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.

Hope is the most powerful force in the universe. With hope you can inspire nations to greatness. With hope you can raise up the downtrodden. With hope you can ease the pain of unbearable loss. Sometimes all it takes is one person to make a difference.

Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up.

Quitting never makes anything easier.

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.

The Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I’m not a Buddhist, but I know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness, and loss.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away—that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project—you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.

Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They’re informative. They’re a wake-up call.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.