In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. ― Joseph Stalin

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The more wit the less courage.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. — Mark Victor Hansen

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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

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Life is to be entered upon with courage. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

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