When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
- Topic: Action, Courage, Patience
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Impossible is just an opinion.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
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.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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 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.
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
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.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
A patient man will eat ripe fruit.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
