"When people are laughing they're generally not killing each other" - Alan Alda

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.“
  - Sidney Howard

"Promise only what you can deliver, then deliver more than you promise."  - Author Unknown

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."   - Edmund Burke

"Promise only what you can deliver, then deliver more than you promise."   - Author Unknown

"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."   - Thomas Edison

"It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not."   - Author Unknown

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once."
 - Lillian Dickson

"Opportunities are missed by most people because they are dressed in overalls and look like work."     -Thomas Edison

"How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours."   - Wayne Dyer

"If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it."   - Author Unknown

"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."   - John Allston

"The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities."   - Author Unknown

"A wise decision at the right moment is better than a tough lesson"  - Han Ying

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package." - Benjamin Franklin

"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."   - Roger Miller

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."  - Johann van Goethe

"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
 - Peter McWilliams

"Growth is the only evidence of life". - John Henry Newman

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned". - Buddha

" To acquire knowledge one must study; but to acquire wisdom one must observe."
- Marilyn vos Savant

"Life is an echo. What you send out comes back." - Chinese Proverb

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?"
- Coleman Cox

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through
strength but by perseverance." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them." - Confucius

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

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
- Confucius

"The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." - C.C. Scott

"See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things." - Lao-Tzu

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first... the lesson afterward."
- Author Unknown

"The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends,
side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!" - Author Unknown

"You start cutting your wisdom teeth the moment you bite off more than you can chew."
- Herb Caen

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." - Anonymous

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
- Richard Bach

"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder." - Israel Zangwill

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears." - Arthur Koestler

"All know the way; few actually walk it." - Bodhidharma

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world."  - George Washington Carver

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
 

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
 

"Do not go where the path may lead. Instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." - Taisen Deshimaru
 

"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting
whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Chuang Tzu
 

"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end." - Krishnamurti
 

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Baba Ram Dass
 

"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha
 

"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part."
- Tiger Woods
 

"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." - John F. Kennedy
 

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke
 

"We are all spiritual beings having a human experience." - Author Unknown
 

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

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."  - Ed Macauley
 

"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
 

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."  - Abraham Lincoln
 

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."  - Mahatma Ghandi
 

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."  - Confucius
 

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."  - Japanese Proverb
 

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." 
- Author Unknown

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."  - Mark Twain

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."  - Albert Einstein

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."  - Confucius

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use it wisely".  - Auguste Rodin

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser". - John W. Gardner

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."  - Bruce Lee

"There are four stages of learning: At first you don't know that you don't know. Next you
know that you don't know. Then you don't know that you know. Finally you know that you know."  - Author Unknown

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha

"I think most of us would learn better if we didn't think so much of ourselves."
- Kensho Furuya

"Control your emotions or they will control you." - Chinese Adage

"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life." - Samurai Maxim

"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation." - Lao-Tzu
 

"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-Tzu
 

"You may train for a long, long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up
and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning to dance. You will
never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the essence of karate-do." - Gichin Funakoshi
 

"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action." - Samurai Maxim
 

"Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment." - Lao-Tzu
 

"Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did." - Author Unknown
 

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."  - Aristotle
 

"The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what
you could become."  - Charles Dubois
 

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent
or greater benefit."  - Napolean Hill     

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse."  - Don Juan

"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes
an artless art, growing out of the unconscious."  - Daisetsu Suzuki
 

"When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense".  - Kahlil Gibran
 

"Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with understanding. The clearer the goal, the greater the result."  - Deng Ming-Dao