Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is; stop worrying.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.