If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Topic: Action, Affirmation, Self-esteem, Vision
- Location: Caribbean Sea
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
