A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
EpictetusWe must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.
EpictetusWe must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
Epictetus