Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
—Charles Reade
“I am alone and helpless. I am old and destite”. Such thoughts do not worry a lion even in its dreams.
—Subhashita Manjari
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
—Wang Yangming
Experience teaches only the teachable.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)
Let your enthusiasm radiate in your voice, your actions, your facial expressions, your personality, the words you use, and the thoughts you think! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else… begin to march us steadily backward.
—Patrick Stewart
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
—Les Brown
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
—Frederick William Faber (British Hymn writer)
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