Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't
Quotex
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finished nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday day.
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
The last of human freedoms the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of sacrifice
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear almost any how
What is to give light must endure burning
Sir Francis Bacon commented that the most important advances are the least predictable ones, those "lying out of the path of the imagination."
To borrow from Warren Buffett, don't ask the barber if you need a haircut- and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
But modern reality rarely gives us the privilege of a satisfying, linear, positive progression: you may think about a problem for a year and learn nothing; then, unless you are disheartened by the emptiness of the results and give up, something will come to you in a flash.
If you want to change the fruits, you first have to change the roots. To change the visible, first you have to change the invisible.
Better to cultivate discipline than to rely on motivation.
You can't build your shield on the battlefield