"Sometimes people take the great things you are doing as a personal attack on their own life. Do not let their insecurities dishearten you."
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be number 1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.