The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.
— Salvador Dali
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Progress over perfection.
— Unknown
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
— Epictetus
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Never say you can't do it. Say I haven't done it yet.
— Rick Rubin
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You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
— Carl Jung
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
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In an ugly world, courage is beautiful. It allows beautiful things to exist.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Be scared. You can't help with that. But don't be afraid.
— William Faulkner
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What we fear, we do not know.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Don't worry about whether things will be hard. Because they will be.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Be like the athlete, knowing what a hard workout gives you: stronger muscles:
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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It's not bad that this is happening to you. It's good training.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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All the energy we spend fearing that we'll make it worse is energy not spent making it better.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
— Søren Kierkegaard
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What we want in life, what the world needs—all if it is on the other side of fear. All of it is accessed throguh courage, should we choose to wield it.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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We can curse the darkness, or we can light a candle.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Repetition leads to confidence. Confidence leads to courage.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Start small...on something big.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Do your best, to what you can, do it right now. That's it.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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The brave thing. The right thing. The principled things. Whatever the consequences.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Fortune favors the bold. Fortune favors the brave.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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It begins with a choice, but it is ensured by action.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
— Steve Jobs
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True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We <i>will</i> our purpose into existence. We choose to be heroes. And if we don't, it's on us.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Why should I quit? I'm not the one doing anything wrong.
— Anonymous
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Work, love, courage and hope,<br> Make me good and help me cope!
— Anne Frank
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Defeat is a choice. the brave never choose it.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Will you find a way to become stronger at the broken places? Or will you so cling to your old ways that you will be shattered?
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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Words don't matter. Deeds do.
— Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling
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The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: Changing The Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
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Becoming is better than being.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: Changing The Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
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Creativity is not a magical act of inspiration. It's the result of hard work and dedication.
— Twyla Tharp
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It's for you to decide whether change is right for you now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But either way, keep the growth mindset in your thoughts. Then, when you bump up against obstacles, you can turn to it. It will always be there for you, showing you a path into the future.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: Changing The Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
— Ira Glass
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
— Dale Carnegie
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Discipline is the strongest form of self-love.
— Unknown
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What about time for rest and relaxation? First of all, rest is for babies and relaxation is for retired people.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life
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Work works.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life
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...So don't tell me you don't have time to train, or to study, or to write, or to network, or to do whatever you need to do to achieve your vision. Turn your TV off. Throw your machines out the window. Save your excuses for someone who cares. Get to work.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life
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People who lack vision are threatened by those who have it.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life
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My vision from the very beginning was to be the best bodybuilder, then the biggest star, then to help the most people. Not someday, not eventually, but as soon as I possibly could.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
— Dalai Lama
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— Confucius
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Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way we deny life.
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book
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Losing is not always up to us… but being a loser is.
— Ryan Holiday, Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
— James Clear
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Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It’s like you’re going to hire a trainer to get in shape, and he comes over, and you go, “How long is the session?” And he goes, “It’s open-ended.” Forget it. I’m not doing it. It’s over right there. You’ve got to control what your brain can take.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
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