“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”
W. H. Murray (verified)
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
— Marie Curie (verified, secondary source)“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)