Francois Fenelon Quotes

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

A little pain is no problem.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!

If there's something left in me, it's better to go down fighting. You've got to have a bit of self-belief and confidence in yourself. I might know that I have only a little chance but I'm a good rider and I try to make it happen. You have to give luck a swift kick in the behind so it falls on your side. You have to make your own luck.

I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

Failure is awesome. Failure means you tried something, you tested it, and you learned some things. Failure gives you the tools to move forward.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

Principally, I'll give anything a chance, only because the greatest challenges are the ones that you never see coming.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!