Begging for acknowledgment, ...

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
 Will Smith

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.
 Will Smith
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.
 Will Smith
I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.
 Will Smith
I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.
 Will Smith