The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Topic: Action, Planning, Preparation
- Location: Grand Cayman
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
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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.
Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
