First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
- Topic: Ability, Life
- Location: Canyonlands National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
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%.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
