There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 109
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Robert Foster Bennett
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.
Susan Jeffers
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
Bernard of Chartres
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.
James Clerk Maxwell
Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.
Danny Gregory
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
Andrew Carnegie
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
