I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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