You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
- Topic: Confidence, Fear
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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.
It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
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.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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 chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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.
