Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.
God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.
I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did
all human wisdom is contained in the words 'wait and hope!
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
