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If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.