If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.
People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.