Believe in yourself

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

~ Christian D. Larson

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Persistence

When you think you can’t go on, force yourself to keep going. Your success is based on persistence, not luck.

~ unknown

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Trample it beneath your feet

I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

~ Nadia Comăneci

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Courage

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

~ unknown

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Change simply is

Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.

~ Don Draper, in Mad Men (“Love Among the Ruins”), (s3e2, 2009 TV series)

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Immortality

Based on what I know about software without deadlines, humans achieving immortality would be a disaster.

~ Jeff Atwood

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Eyes half-closed

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-closed afterwards.

~ unknown

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Useless to worry

When one is inexperienced as a teacher, one gets quite worried about the pupil’s situation; His anxieties rub off on the teacher as it were. But an older teacher realizes it is useless to worry or even think about it. The thinking has been done already, and a proper programme has been carefully worked out to suit this pupil. Either he will follow it, or he will not.

~ Trevor Leggett

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Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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By example

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

~ Paulo Coelho

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