Quotes from Dan Miller

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Hill once said: "Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."4

So part of the issue is—do you want to do something great—in any area? If you are content with mediocrity in your life, then you will try to protect yourself from any failure. Just recognize the trade-off.

I've heard that Richard Branson will not invest in any company unless the person in charge has failed at least twice.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Research shows that if you are under thirty years old, there is a 90 percent chance you will be fired sometime in the next twenty years.

Bernie Marcus was fired from a job as manager of the Handy Dan Improvement Center, then went on to start Home Depot.

The most common mistake people make in choosing a career is to do something simply because they are good at it.

Being positive will inject in you a sense of peace and tranquility amidst the troubled waters.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God" (1 Pet. 4:10).

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with something original." —Sir Ken Robinson4

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." — Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.