"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."

Irving, Washington on mind   

"The price for independence is often isolation and solitude."

Schmidt, Steve on independence   

"Fear makes men believe the worst."

Rufus, Quintus Curtius on fear   

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Livy, Titus on fear
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ."

Brown, Les on visualization   

"All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory."

Unknown, Source on fear   

"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear
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"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not."

Ching Ning Chu on fear
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters."

D'Amato, Cus on fear
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"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

Bach, Richard on desire
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"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on misfortunes
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai on anger
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"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

Montapert, Alfred A. on anger
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on adventure
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare."

Horowitz, Vladimir on risk   

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

Brown, Les on forgiveness
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"Mistakes are stepping stones to success."

Popplestone, Charles E. on mistakes
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"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on mistakes
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"If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."

Lawrence, Martin on belief   

"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on deceit
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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -"

Francis De Sales, St. on patience
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

Robbins, Anthony on relationship
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi on patience
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"You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose."

Coudert, Jo on self-improvement
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change
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"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."

Proust, Marcel on change
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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