Confidence is the greatest friend.
Interpretation
Confidence acts as a supportive ally in life.
The quote highlights the importance of confidence as a vital source of support in one's life. By viewing confidence as a friend, it suggests that having self-assurance can empower individuals to face challenges, take risks, and achieve their goals, ultimately leading to personal growth and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming fears.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
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