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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Quotes
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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I must die
I must die. If instantly, I will die instantly; If in a short time, I will dine first, since the hour for dining is here, and when the time comes, then I will die. How? As becomes a person who is giving back what is not his own.
~ Epictetus
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Courage, part 2
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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Relationships
They who wanted to do each other good are now handling one another in an imperious and intolerant manner, and in the struggle somehow to get out of their untenable and unbearable state of confusion, they commit the greatest fault that can happen to human relationships: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Genius
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
~ Lao Tzu
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Courage, part 1
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin
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Discipline
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell
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Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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Man’s enemies
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
~ Lao Tzu
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Courage
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
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Boldness
Our difficulties and our dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them.
~ Winston Churchill
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Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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Everything is accomplished
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
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A brain in my head
With a brain in my head, and feet in my shoes, I can steer myself any direction I choose.
~ “Dr. Seuss“
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