“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
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Variant: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Variant: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/237.htm
1880s, 1882
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”
Misattributed
Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435065322687?urlappend=%3Bseq=458: "If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie." Other versions of the saying were repeated in several of Hubbard's later writings.
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
