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If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
Sep 10, 2025
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Change brings opportunity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.