Credit where credit is due

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Nature is against idleness

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

James Terry White

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It’s steep up the hill

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Some basic life advice on friends

Time decides who you meet in life,

your heart decides who you want in your life,

and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

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Life is simple.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Allan Watts

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Why being afraid will be no problem

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby

Everybody is afraid. You have to be careful not to get into a state of paralysis. Keep going, conquer your fear! Don’t get rid of it, learn how to live with it and use it as a motivation.

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You’ll manage!

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

In the end, it always works out! Either you will find a way or you have to get a little bit creative. Stay strong and keep the hopes up!

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Keep struggling, the reward is waiting!

Any man’s finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious.

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Create, get busy!

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Dr. Robert Schuller

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It’s the small, daily things

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of you success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

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