#elf

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition. ↗

— Michael Chang

#always #competition #doing #everything #i

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. ↗

— Robert Collier

#exactly #hard #prosperous #see #up

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #rather #reverie #than #yourself

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#failure #fool #make #takes #unimportant

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#day #down #had #head #i

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#away #became #been #block #caused

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#go #god #him #i #life