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来源：英语周报
发布时间：2009-09-02 18:21:00
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内容提要：Is it worth it?Put first things firstThe power of encouragement
Never doubt yourself
（第8期）
The most important thing I can say to you is never doubt yourself. No matter what people say, no matter what you may think sometimes, never doubt yourself. If you believe in yourself you will succeed far more often than you will fail. He who possesses a quiet kind of faith in his ability to perform a task already has the task half completed.
Believe in yourself despite setbacks, despite obstacles, despite the cold and dark, despite the woe and pain, and eventually you will find all those troubles behind you.
The simplest thing in the world is to deride ourselves because we made a mistake, to give up and say, “I’m no good.” But the more difficult thing is to believe in ourselves and constructively continue our life. The greatest error in life is to downgrade ourselves. The most horrible tragedies in life occur from a lack of faith in one’s own self, one’s own ability, from a belief that one cannot succeed, that failure is one’s sole lot in life.
There seems to be a self-uncertainty that builds up in the mind every time one makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a task, and with every successive mistake the uncertainty grows stronger until one doubts one’s ability to do anything right.
We are not mechanically precise machines; we have shortcomings, but we are capable of achieving amazing things.
We have more strength than we believe. There is more fight within us than we know, and far more potential than we could ever call forth or even dream of being possible.