There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
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.
Mark Twain
Do not be fooled by the enormous counterfeits and perversions by which many are led to think that something can be had for nothing. There are no royal roads to success; we must give time and thought; the Law of Compensation demands an eye for an eye.
Anonymous
You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going
Mike Litman
Without some failure under your belt, any success will be a fragile thing.
Forrest Brandt
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it... For every nine who do things the way they have always been done, only one will wonder if there is a better way. For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door.
Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck
Being successful is simply a matter of making good choices by using our incredibly sophisticated brains. We all have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. That’s a simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
Ben Carson, author of “Take the Risk"
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