What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor E Frankl
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu
What holds most people back isn’t the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be. – Russell Simmons
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. – Epictetus
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. – Stephen Richards
A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. – Marcus Aurelius
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. – James Allen
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. – Anaïs Nin