If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.