A dream postponed is a dream we deny ourselves.
Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn
"I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me."
Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.
The only things needed in life are security, knowledge, and a lot of audacity.
Whether it's a morning routine, or a philosophy or training tip, or just motivation to get through your day, there isn't a person on this planet who doesn't benefit from a little outside help.
What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please
Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.
John Wesley: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.
There were other ways to live. You could do something else, if you wanted. And if you had a reason.
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
Work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis.
I live by the ancient adage that I truly understand today, Fear knocked on the door; love answered, and no one was there. As one of my greatest teachers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed, 'They can...
Abandon all patience, ye who enter beyond this door.
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...
Many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
"Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -"
Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.
"Chasing a dream has a price. It may require us to abandon our habits, it may make us go through difficulties, it may lead us to disappointments, etc. But no matter how high the price, it is never as...
I will at least have gained one ver
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.
The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.
You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY
Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
If you do everything, you'll win
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.
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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
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the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
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