If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. You cannot plough a field by Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Fortune favors the brave. He who hesitates is lost. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Constant dripping hollows out a stone. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. |
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