Life is too short to hold back on what you love. If you do not follow your dreams, who will? One way or the other you must not be afraid to live your dreams. You are here to live a grand life. Yes, courage is to back yourself against all odds even when no one else does. A tiny bird trusts it ability to fly and it flies for thousands of miles at a stretch crossing the biggest oceans and keeps moving with faith in its wings. The bird keeps saying to its wings, "You mustn't be afraid to do what you are born to do."

"If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you."

"Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat."

"The enormity of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. By overestimating the problem you underestimate yourself."

"The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly."

"It is the road you take that decides your destiny and not your destiny that decides the road you take."

"You may not be able to change the world. But that should not stop you from changing someone's world."

"Your life is a gift that is unveiled when you expand it by touching the lives of others."

"The strongest foundation for success is laid by the merit of your actions nothing in the world can shake it"

Be the best that you can be and the world will be illuminated by your presence.

Apoorve Dubey, the author of 'The Flight of Ambition,' works with Symantec. He received his master's degree from the department of computer science and engg, IIT Madras.

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