THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.
Interpretation
Relying on others for your security can lead to missed opportunities and stagnation.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-reliance and taking risks in life. Depending on others for security can limit one's potential and personal growth, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from taking initiative and ownership of one's own future instead of waiting passively for others to provide support or direction.
In practice
During a motivational speech, to inspire individuals to take charge of their own lives.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.
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