Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

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.

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.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

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.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

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.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.