Your headlights illuminate just a few feet of the dark road in front of you, and yet that is enough for you to move forward and make continual progress.
He who does something at the head of one regiment,” Abraham Lincoln reminds us, “will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.” Better to win a small battle than continually to defer for some larger, perfect battle in the future.
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Not: This is not so bad. But: I can make this good. Because it can be done. In fact, it has and is being done.
Because when you play all the way to the whistle, there’s no reason to worry about the clock.
If fear is to be a driving force in your life, fear what you’ll miss. Fear what happens if you don’t act. Fear what they’ll think of you down the road, for having dared so little. Think of what you’re leaving on the table. Think of the terrifying costs of playing small.
By the end of the war, Sherman was one of the most famous men in America, and yet he sought no public office, had no taste for politics, and wished simply to do his job and then eventually retire. Dismissing the incessant praise and attention endemic to such success, he wrote as a warning to his friend Grant, “Be natural and yourself and this glittering flattery will be as the passing breeze of the sea on a warm summer day.
It has been said that leaders are dealers in hope, but in a more practical sense, they are also slayers of fear.
Only those of us who take the time to explore, to question, to extrapolate the consequences of our desires have an opportunity to overcome them and to stop regrets before they start. Only they know that real pleasure lies in having a soul that’s true and stable, happy and secure.
The aim was to see these things as they really are, without any of the ornamentation.
Our critics and naysayers who make us feel small, let’s put them in their proper place. It’s so much better to see things as they truly, actually are, not as we’ve made them in our minds.
When I look up in the universe, I know I’m small, but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.” We just can’t forget which is bigger and which has been here longer.
Duris dura franguntur. Hard things are broken by hard things.
It’s the company that, after years of ignoring the trends, finally has to change or die. It’s.
Fate is smiling upon you. But she tires quickly. She will resent you if you make her wait.
Appearances are deceiving. Having authority is not the same as being an authority. Having the right and being right are not the same either.
Be not afraid of greatness,” Shakespeare said. Let it enter your blood and spirit. Fight for it.
There’s a great expression: Whatever you’re not changing, you’re choosing.
Fear votes for hesitation, it always has a reason for not doing and so it rarely does anything. If we don’t find ourselves experiencing this hesitation every so often, we should know that we are not pushing ourselves enough.
Courage is defined in the moment. In less than a moment. When we decide to step out or step up. To leap or to step back. A person isn’t brave, generally. We are brave, specifically. For a few seconds. For a few seconds of embarrassing bravery we can be great. And that is enough.