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.
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.
- Topic: Dreams, Failure, Fear
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
