What we do

It’s not who we are, but what we do that defines us.

~ Bruce Wayne, in Batman Begins, (2005 film)

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Realize that all things change

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

~ Lao Tzu

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Success

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

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A delusional quality

I think that there’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different can happen.

~ Will Smith

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The world breaks everyone

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Do the difficult things

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

~ Lao Tzu

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One tongue

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue – to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

~ Socrates

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When it gets hard

The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and you’re gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it’ll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be.

~ Will Smith

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Rise to the work of a human being

In the morning, when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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No fixed plans

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

~ Lao Tzu

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