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• I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  ~ Tim Ferriss Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Future, Fear, Wise

• When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

  ~ Lao-tzu Quotes from The Tao te Ching

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, People

• Every positive change--every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness--involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  ~ Dan Millman Quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• When we feel stuck, going nowhere--even starting to slip backward--we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  ~ Dan Millman Quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth

• Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

  ~ Margaret Mead Quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Commit, Doubt, People

• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan

  Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Knowledge, Fear

• If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it—purge it, make it perfect—because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile…To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

  Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior

• There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Tales of Power

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior

• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Tales of Power

  Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Growth, Warrior, Simple