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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
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