Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
- Topic: Choice, Decision, Mistakes
- Location: Lake Powell
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
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.
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.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.