I was afraid of being ...

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
 Erich Segal

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory
 Erich Segal
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
 Erich Segal
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
 Erich Segal
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
 Erich Segal