Inspirational Quotes

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Inspirational Quotes "If you think you can or you think you can't . . . you--re right!" -- Unknown

"The ultimate human freedom is the ability to choose one's attitude in any circumstance." -- V. Frank

"Pain is weakness leaving the body." -- Unknown "Train hard and DO NOT be intimidated by anyone." -- Unknown

"Try Not . . . DO or DO NOT . . . There is no try . . . " -- Yoda ("Star Wars")

"The 7 Obstacles to overcome: 1-ignorance 2-impatience 3-confusion 4procrastination 5-anger 6-fear 7-doubt." -- Unknown

"Extraordinary abilities can only come from extraordinary efforts." -Unknown "Train hard . . . fight easy." -- Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Unknown

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." -Mahatma Gandhi "Black Belt -- A white belt that never quit!" -- Unknown

"Power is created in the mind, Rooted in the feet, developed in the legs, directed by the hips, transferred through the torso, focused in the feet or hands and felt in the spirit." -- C. J. Doyle

"You can’t reach the top unless you start climbing." -- Alan Kilpatrick.

"A distraction is only a distraction if you pay attention to it." -- Unknown

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -- Unknown

"Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." -- Mary Kay Ash

"There are two ways to spread the light: . . . One is to be the candle, the other, is to be the mirror . . . that reflects it." -- Unknown

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -- Unknown

"The more you say, the less people remember." -- Unknown "Caution is good. Courage is better." -- Unknown

"To be yourself, forget yourself." -- Unknown

"The golden thread that runs through the life of all great men: The willingness to fail in order to succeed."

"Part time effort leads to full time failure." -- Unknown

"The most important thing is this: To sacrifice what we are for what we can become!" -- Unknown

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein

"All know the Way; Few actually walk it." -- Bodhidarma

"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge." -- Unknown

"Every man dies . . . but not every man truly lives." -- Braveheart

"Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay "Inches make a champion." --Vince Lombardi

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." --Sally Kempton

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." -- John Henry Cardinal Newman "Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun." -Christina Rossetti

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." -- Katherine Mansfield

"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?" -- Robert Townsend " . . . this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down." -Mary Pickford

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." -- Anon. "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." -- Horace

"Man cannot live without self-control." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." -- Seneca

"If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard." -- Norman Harris

"Securing ourselves against defeat lies within our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy lies within the enemy himself." -- Sun Tzu

"Those who live by the sword are usually shot by those who don't." -Unknown

"Martial Arts should be a way of life, not a job, hobby, sport, but a part of you and the way you live your life." -- Frank Gutting

"The true value of the martial arts is not in 100 victories but in the perfection of the character of the students." -- Gichin Funakoshi

"It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress." -- Okakura Kakuzo

"The art of the sword consists of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, or the enemy not seeing me and my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven and earth where even yin and yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art." -- Takuan

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."-- Sun-Tsu "A Man Who Has Attained Mastery of An Art Reveals It in His Every Action. Five Secrets of Japanese Goju Ryu: Move quickly.

Have a sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics." -- Gogen Yamaguchi "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." -- Lisa M. Amos

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." -Bishop W. C. Magee

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar." -- Helen Keller

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." -- Seneca

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." -- Florence Shinn

"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own." -- Jacqueline Briskin "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent." -- Sydney Smith "You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . . Confidence makes the difference." -- Chris Evert "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." -- Mildred W. Struven "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." -- Carl Rogers

"No one from the beginning of time has had security." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." -- William J. Locke "Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." -- Robert G. Ingersoll

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." -- Rita Mae Brown

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt "Success is a journey, not a destination." -- Ben Sweetland

"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." -- Mae West "There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." -- General Douglas MacArthur "The way to be safe is never to be secure." -- Benjamin Franklin

"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present." -- James Petersen

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." -- Elbert Hubbard "The impossible is often the untried." -- Jim Goodwin "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." -- Edward Gibbon

"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" -- Carrie Fisher "If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." -- Kathleen Norris "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." -- Irving Berlin "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." -- Benjamin Lipson "He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." -- Horace "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -- Beverly Sills

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done." -- Julia Louise Woodruff "Wake up with a smile and go after life . . .. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." -Joe Knapp

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -- Henry David Thoreau " . . . in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on." --Francis Bacon

"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." -- Beverly Sills

"People can bear anything." -- Philip Slater

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." -- Katharine Graham

"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." -- Joseph Conrad

"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." -- William Hazlitt

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." -- Charles O. Finley

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." -Confucius

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything." -- Lee Iacocca "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." -- Lady Bird Johnson

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." -- Dorothea Brande

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." -- William James

"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy." -Dale Carnegie

"Don't be humble. You're not that great." -- Golda Meir

"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." -Oprah Winfrey

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go." -- Jeannette Rankin

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." -- Axel Munthe "The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent." -- Edgar Watson Howe

"There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking." -- Bliss Carmen

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller

"Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it." -- Thomas Eakins

"Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience." -- Katherine Tingley

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." -- George C. Scott "Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." -- Lillian Smith

"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present." -- Albert Camus "The first step is the hardest." -- Madame De Vichy-Deffand

"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior." --Henry Miller

"Facing it -- always facing it -- that's the way to get through. Face it!" -Joseph Conrad

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck." -Katharine Hepburn

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." -- Howard W. Newton

"Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." -Madeline Bridges

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world." -- Oscar Hammerstein II

"Crisis creates opportunity." -- Walter Klores

"Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do." -- John Milton

"If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -- Catherine Aird

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