They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
Interpretation
Overcoming doubt and fear is essential for achieving success.
This quote emphasizes that the greatest obstacles to success are often the doubts and fears we harbor within ourselves. By conquering these internal barriers, we empower ourselves to pursue our goals and ultimately achieve them, turning what seemed like failure into a stepping stone towards success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, you might quote this to encourage the audience to confront their fears.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.
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