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I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
Sep 10, 2025
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.
I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The harder I work the more I live.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the change you want to see.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.