Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.