Live Your Dream Through Overcoming Obstacles And Never Ever Quit!

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ey that is life."

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LIVE YOUR DREAM THROUGH OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND
NEVER EVER QUIT

A collection of thoughts and quotations compiled by Craig Lock (in 1994) ...

Authors' Note:
Quotations in this article have been extracted from 'A THIRD
SERVING OF CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL' and 'CHICKEN
SOUP FOR THE MIND': 101 stories to open the heart and rnrekindle the spirit. These fine books were written and compiled rnby Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Sincere thanks to
Jack and Mark for sharing your "global voice of inspiration"
through your work...and most importantly, for encouraging rnand inspiring me to follow my path in life - no matter what!.
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"What you ARE is as important as what you do."

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who rnare doing it." - anon

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

No matter what path you are on, people (often well-meaning) will rnnot understand and will criticise you. Are you strong enough to rnhandle the critics?

Passionate people, who live their dreams, embrace what they love rnand never give up. They overcome many (and often seemingly rninsurmountable) obstacles on the path to success in pursuing rntheir life vision.

"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to ste
resolve."
- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your rneyes off the goal."
- Henry Ford

"We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last rnpiece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer rnsufficient proof, that everything can be taken away from a man rnbut one thing: The last of his freedoms - to choose one's rnattitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own rnway."
- Viktor E. Frankl in his book, 'Man's Search for Meaning'

Failure doesn't mean that I have failed. It simply means that I haven't succeeded... YET!

Surrender (to God) is not quitting.
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DON'T BE AFRAID TO FAIL

You've failed many times; although you may not remember.

# Didn't you fall down the first time you tried to walk? (What rnwould you have done, if your dear mom had given up on you ever rnwalking as a baby). No, she waited patiently for you to take rnthose first tentative steps.

# You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't rnyou?

# Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy rnhitters, the ones who strike the most home runs, also strike out rna lot.

Now for some examples of famous achievers, who refused to quit...

RH Macy failed 7 times, before his store in New York caught on.

Harland Sanders was 65-years-old, with little more than a $105
Social Security payment in his pocket, when he started Kentucky
Fried Chicken. The Colonel apparently was rejected by over 1,000rnbanks before he became successful in selling his unique recipe
of southern fried chicken. Was he "chick'
" to keep on asking for
orders for his "finger-lickn good creation"?

Mark V Hansen had been working with his partner, Jack Canfield
on an inspirational book for some time; however their idea was
rejected by 140 book publishers as "unsellable." Today, the
70 books in the 'Chicken Soup' series have sold
more than 90 million copies in 39 languages!

TIME and PERSISTENCE!

English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he rnpublished 564 books. A glimmer of hope for me then!

Baseball legend, Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times; but he also rnhit 714 home runs.

So don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss,
when you don't even try.

Abraham Lincoln didn't quit. He once wrote:
"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A rnduty to strive is the duty of us all. I feel a call to that duty."

"The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped out from under rnme, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said rnto myself, 'It's a slip and not a fall.'" Lincoln spoke these rninspiring words after losing a senate race. He never quit...and rnso won't I!

Will YOUR name be mentioned some day as not being a "quitter",
who overcame almost insurmountable obstacles?

Will YOU quit, whatever you are doing...if you really believe in rnyour "unique calling" on this planet - a tribute to the power of rnpersistance and great faith? A tribute to the sheer strength of rnthe indomitable and unquenchable human spirit - the spark
of God within EACH one of us.

WILL YOU SAY, "I WILL UNTIL"

and

"BE ALL THAT I CAN BE?"

Shared by Craig Lock ("Information and Inspiration Distributor, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder")

"Be all that you are CAPABLE of being." - Catherine Mansfield

"Every man has his own destiny;
the only imperative is to follow it, no matter where it leads him." - Henry Miller

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how rnthe strong man strumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have rndone them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually rnin the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again rnbecause there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who rnknows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and rnwho at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place rnshall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither rnvictory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

P.S: Thanks, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Rooseveld for being rngreat encouragers and true inspirations to me!

"For me true success may be measured by the fortitude, with which rnso many ordinary people around the globe overcome numerous rnseemingly insurmountable obstacles through sheer force of rncharacter and spirit. They rise above the severest adversity rndown the ordinary, yet often rocky, tempestous (and tumultous)
jou
ey of life. Unheralded, yet with an indominitable, unquenchable rnand infinite generosity of human spirit, they are the true heroes of rnthis world.". - Craig Lock (13th August 2004)

"God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into the world with a different collection of life circumstances that often severely challenge us, things that give us joy and in expressing our talents allow us to bless the people, the world around us." - craig

"Our talents are our gifts from God...
but what we do with them are our gifts TO the Ultimate Source"

"Together, one mind, one life at a time, let's see how many people we can impact, uplift, empower and encourage to reach their fullest potentials."
Don't worry about the world ending today...
as it's already tomorrow in little scenic and tranquil New Zealand