Mio Ratiu
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Sometimes in life, you have to grab your so-called destiny by the throat and wring its neck.
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“You only have one life. You should never be too busy to save it.”
― Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life – The New York Times Bestselling Last Testament of Courage and Wisdom
― Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life – The New York Times Bestselling Last Testament of Courage and Wisdom
“you’re not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. Your dreams won’t always come true, but you’ll never know if you don’t try. Either way, you will always discover so much of value along the way because you’ll always run into problems—or as I call them, challenges.”
― Devil at My Heels
― Devil at My Heels
“don’t be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success.”
― Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life – The New York Times Bestselling Last Testament of Courage and Wisdom
― Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life – The New York Times Bestselling Last Testament of Courage and Wisdom
“All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.”
― Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
― Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
“Your mind is everything. It’s like a muscle. You must exercise it or it will atrophy—just like a muscle.”
― Devil at My Heels
― Devil at My Heels
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