The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~ Vince Lombardi
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Perspective →
“The appearance of the bull changes when you enter the ring.” The matador’s point of view is different from the spectator’s.
~ Mexican proverb
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Level of consciousness →
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~ Albert Einstein
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Inaction →
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Realize you do not understand →
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
~ Lao Tzu
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Courage, part 3 →
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
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Living virtuously →
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
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Carving →
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Then do patriots flourish →
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
~ Lao Tzu
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Heart →
Before you embark on any path ask the question, does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it and then you must choose another path. The trouble is that nobody asks the question. And when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart the path is ready to kill him.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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