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View all filters →If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
From the pages of collected sayings his wife gathered from his speeches and editorials in the Negro World.
Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.
From the second truth, that "unbelievable" is the stupidest word in the dictionary.
If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.
Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.
The first of the thirteen truths. Text from McConaughey's own published version of the address.
Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.
We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.
From the seventh truth, on dissecting successes rather than failures.
We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.
From the tenth truth, that a roof is a man-made thing.
It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.
TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!
One of the epigraph panels Hill sets between lessons.
When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.
True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The same thought, fifteen letters later, when Lien Chi Altangi learns his son has been enslaved in Persia. Read in the 1871 Miscellaneous Works, whose scan carries the sentence without the OCR damage the other editions have.
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