Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.
- Topic: Confidence, Courage, Risk
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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 find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.