“Fortune favours the bold.”
“Look before you leap.”
So, which one is it???
“Fortune favours the bold” is the battle cry of the blind optimist. It works well, sometimes, but it can also lead to a flaming mess!
“Look before you leap” is the hunkering down cry of the pessimist. It also works well, sometimes, but it can also lead to paralysis.
I think many issues in our lives are created when we make things binary; it is this or that.
But actually, very few things are truly binary; there’s an entire spectrum available to us and we aren’t locked in to any one part of that spectrum.
The reality is that it’s a good idea to live by both these mottos, and just to apply them appropriately.
I think healthy confidence does the pre-work, then commits and moves forward
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.