Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Never give in and never give up.
Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
The only one who can tell you “You can’t” is you. And you don’t have to listen.
It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.