Wrote these in grade 11:
Do not attempt to climb the summit of the highest mountain with one step.
No matter how many problems you have, make them line up one by one so that they will never overwhelm you.
If you fail, it is because you did not try hard enough.
Failure is that which preludes success.
You never truly want to fail, because that is not truly what you want to do with the time that is given to you.
Consistently moping over the failures of the past will never bring on the successes of the future.
When life seems too hard, when it appears that your obstacles are too great, remember that we do not choose our circumstances. Our circumstances choose us, and we can choose what to do with them.
The level of the adversity facing you and the level of adversity you think you can overcome are completely unrelated.
Adversity is not determined by your ability to overcome it; rather, you must overcome it no matter what.
If a mountain must be climbed, a mountain must be climbed. It doesn?t matter how hard it is, or indeed, if it is too hard.
If accomplishing something is outside of ones capabilities, then one must change ones capabilities.
If we never changed, never improved ourselves, we would all be breast sucking infants.
If work must be done, it must be done immediately, or risk being forgotten until it is far too late.
Never consider defeating adversity to be an optional course of action.
The will to succeed cannot come through logic, only the deep crevasses of internal emotion. However, crevasses can only be filled by slowly having the right attitude and deciding to do what is best every time.
Never allow overzealous moral values to bring you down.
If you once have believed in something you want for yourself, do not allow the passage of time to erode it. Do not convince yourself that you want any less.
When you say you are going to do something, there are three meanings to what you are saying. The first is that you are going to do it immediately. The second is that you are going to do something else, but something beneficial and productive first. The third is that you are going to do it later. Always ask yourself which applies; and make sure it isn?t the third.
If you think you are going to do something later, you aren?t.
The will to achieve ones desires is not something which someone should ever assume they have. They should never convince themselves of what they want, because they already know what they want. A person must simply choose to succeed at every moment.
Put effort into achieving something, and the achievement will worry about itself.
Never be polluted with the thought that the way something is now is how it is meant to be, that how something currently is; is a default which should be bowed too. Things are however you want them to be! And you must know that you wish things to be the better way, the way you have seen but may have been convinced you do not want. Doubt and distraction are the devil?s greatest tools.
