Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Don’t worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

You must have confidence in your competence.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Whatever your mindset is, it tends to end up coming true. Staying positive and maintaining a mindset of confidence, determination, and hope can help you overcome challenges.

ALICE WALKER

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