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Friday, December 3, 2010

The quotes I have posted

"Blood is just red sweat." - Enson Inoue

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"Life can either be accepted or changed. If not accepted, it must be changed. If not changed, then it must be accepted." - Unknown Author

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph" - Author Unknown

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places" - Author Unknown

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid" - Franklin P. Jones

"In time of test, family is best" - Burmese Proverb

“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be” - Mark Twain

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Chinese proverb

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” - George Lorimer

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” - Sven Goran Eriksson

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted” - David Bly

"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu

" Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” - Omar Bradley

“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.” - Ron Blomberg

"The harder you train, the harder it is to surrender." ~ Vince Lombardi

"Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape." - Mr Miyagi

" A lifetime of training for just ten seconds." - Jesse Owens

“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger


“Half of life is f*cking up, the other half is dealing with it.” - Henry Rollins

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! - Rocky Balboa

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

"“If you can accept losing, you can't win.” - Vince Lombardi

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” - Bruce Lee

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter" - Mark Twain


"The belly rules the mind" - Spanish Proverb

"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive , I didn't hear it. If you can over come that, fights are easy." - George Foreman


"I have always adhered to two principles: The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition, the second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight." - Rocky Marciano

"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu

"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself, is a tragedy." - Cus D'Amato

"My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flowers or weeds." - Mel Weldon

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.” - Conrad Hilton

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” - Dalai Lama

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” - William Pollard

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." - David Viscott

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." - Jack Dempsey

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." - Kahlil Gibran

"Arrogance diminishes wisdom” - Arabian Proverb

"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory." - Arthur Golden

"A day is all it takes to break some ones heart, a day is all it takes to become very smart, A day is all it takes to build your dreams, A day may be only 24 hours, A day can be filled with sour things or sweet smelling flowers, A day can change your life so make the right choices." - By Kayla Peters

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” - Hebbel

“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations” - Alan Loy McGinnis

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -
Mahatma Gandhi

"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.” - M. Scott Peck

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” - Maria Robinson

“You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” - Aristotle Onassis

"Don't go through life, grow through life.” - Eric Butterworth

"Size does not determine the outcome of a fight." - Kristopher Lee (Kit) Cope

"Concentration is the secret of strength” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." ~ Author Unknown

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

"Little by little one walks far” - Peruvian Proverb

"Mistakes are always forgivable , if one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee

"If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly." - Morihei Ueshiba

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down." - Hitopadesa

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." - Chinese Proverb

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices." - Dwight David Eisenhower

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur

"Creativity means believing you have greatness." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"The first and the best victory is to conquer self." - Plato

"You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." - Rwandan Proverb

"Never let defeat have the last word." Tibetan Proverb

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let him." - Napoleon Hill

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength." Ralph Sockman

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” - Robert Gary Lee

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Siddartha Guatama Buddha

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Muriel Strode

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." - Jim Rohn

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." - Rob Gilbert

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." - Desiderius Erasmus

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus

"Make rest a necessity,not an objective.Only rest long enough to gather straight." - Jim Rohn

"The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all." - Savannah Curtis

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." - Akiro Kurosawa

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies." - William Wrigley Jr.

"Think before you act and then act decisively.Fortune favors the brave." - Brian Tracy

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination" - Roy Goodman

"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you." - Jim Rohn

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewing

"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward." - Elbert Hubbard

"What the lion cannot manage to do, the fox can." - German Proverb

"There are many victories worse than a defeat." - George Eliot

"If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." - John Wooden

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." - Anonymous

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.” - Richard Bach

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." - Joe Paterno

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records." - William A. Ward

"If you don't do whats best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." - Julius Erving

“Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.” - William Longgood

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome." - William James

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” - George Lorimer

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his/her life by altering his/her attitude." - William James

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have
the life that is waiting for us." - E. M. Forester

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent T. Lombardi

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" - Maya Angelou

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." - Merle Miller

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold Glasow

"You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you." - Mark Victor Hansen

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." - Napoleon Hill

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our successes or failure." - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." - Arthur Christopher Benson

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself." - Anonymous

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." Seneca

"Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs." - Gloria Clemente

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." - Charles Lynch

"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse." - Nigerian Proverb

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." - Chinese Proverb

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." - Honore de Balzac

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"Ain't no chance if you dont take it." - Guy Clark

"If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average." - M.H. Alderson

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you." - Zig Ziglar

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Siddartha Guatama Buddha

“College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink”

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw

"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." - Lao-tzu

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." - Charles de Montesquieu

"Because in your heart you know, that the juice is worth the squeeze." - Matthew Kidman

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

"When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high." - Mary H. Waldrip

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.” - Henry Miller

"If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through." - Chinese Proverb

"Another word for creativity is courage" - George Prince

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

"The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions." - William J. Johnston

"We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn't do." - Richard L. Evans

"The most drastic, and usually the most effective, remedy for fear is direct action" - William Burnham

"Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road." - Dag Hammarskjold

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes De Mille

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." - William Feather

"Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." - Abraham Lincoln

"No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains." - Louis Brandeis

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe." - Anatole France

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." - Carl Jung

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans” - John Lennon

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves" - Eric Hoffer

2 comments:

Gina said...

Thanks for compiling this. There are so many great sources of inspiration here, I see myself returning to it many times in the future. The one that struck me today was "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" - Maya Angelou

Gina said...

As a quote stalker, I thought I would see if I could find any quotes on this list that I don't like, but I couldn't find one :) My favorite for today is "In a mad world, only the mad are sane." - Akiro Kurosawa

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