We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?
I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
The way we see the problem is the problem.
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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