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An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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