A Quote by Og Mandino

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
American - Author
December 12, 1923 - September 3, 1996

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Jerry Gillies

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

Edsger Dijkstra

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

John Assaraf

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

W. Clement Stone

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

Kofi Annan

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

Bill Hicks

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Simon Sinek

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

Karen Joy Fowler

Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

Charles Lee

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

Bill Dixon

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

GloZell

Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.

Susan Love

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

Og Mandino

In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.