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The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
A bold onset is half the battle.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
We work to become, not to acquire.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.
When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.
Every one starts out being an atheist.
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
The hardest victory is the victory over self.
You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.
"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.
It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing, no keys to the house. You just ran outside into the woods. You weren't scared of nothing. I challenge you to do that as an adult. All your IDs, all your credit cards - just run out of the house with no phone, turn the corner where you can't see your house, and not have a full on panic attack.
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.
I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.
Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.
I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.
Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.