EAGLES FLY ALONE; CROWS FLY IN GROUPS.

Every great idea and dream must be established within you and you alone. There will come times when only you will believe it is going to happen. Can you stand alone? Can you believe when it looks as if no one else does?
John Gardner declared, “The cynic says, ‘One man can’t do anything.’ I say, ‘Only one man can do anything.’ ”Nobody can do it for you. Nobody will do it for you.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow puts it this way: “Not in the clamor of the crowded streets, not in the shouts or plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.” You can’t delegate your thinking, dreaming or believing to others.
Thomas Edison, who claimed he could think better because of his partial deafness, said, “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Eagles fly alone; crows fly in groups. Know how to get away and separate yourself. Don’t belong so completely to others that you do not belong to yourself. The fact is that we’re all in this together-by ourselves.
Alexander Graham Bell made this observation: “Don’t keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten path occasionally and drive into the woods. You’ll be certain to find something that you’ve never seen before. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you’ll have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.” Most big ideas are discovered when you are by yourself.
Don’t accept that others know better than yourself. Great leaders have always encountered noisy opposition from mediocre minds. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that others are responsible for your failures and successes. Each of us will give account of ourselves, not of anyone else, to God.
There is power in the principle of standing alone. More than anyone else, you must be persuaded.
The opportunity to succeed or not is yours. No one can take that away unless you let them. Learn to be alone and stand alone, or nothing worthwhile will catch up with you.source