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"Difficult
things take a long time, impossible things a little longer."
- Author
Unknown |
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"The will to win is nothing
without the will to prepare"
- Zig Ziglar |
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov |
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"A teacher who is
attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to
learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann |
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"Business is about 'customers', and giving them what they
want.
Education is about 'students', and giving them what they need."
- Constantino Terrigno |
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"It is always the secure who are humble."
- G. K. Chesterton |
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"A fearful mind is a distracted mind, and can never operate at
its full potential."
- Author Unknown |
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"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year."
- Spanish Proverb |
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra |
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"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."
- Charles W. Chesnutt |
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"Acquire skill and make it deep."
- Hawaiian Proverb |
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"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."
- Author Unknown |
"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and becoming."
- Matthew Arnold |
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"You were born an original, don't die a copy."
- John Mason |
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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only
what you need."
- Vernon Howard |
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"Life is a school where you learn how to remember what
your soul already knows."
- Author Unknown |
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"You already posess everything necessary to become great."
- Native American Proverb, Crow |
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"Nothing is hidden from us. The problem lies in what we choose to
see." - Constantino Terrigno |
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"Progress
comes to those that train; reliance on secret techniques will get
you nowhere."
- Morihei Ueshiba |
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"The man who says he can, and the man who says he cannot, are both
correct"
- Confucious |
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"If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what
you spend your days doing."
- Robert Brault |
"A person's
character reaches town long before the person does."
- Danish Proverb |
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"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will
change."
- Buddhist Proverb |
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"Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he
hates to do, just for practice."
- William James |
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"Shortcuts generally get you
nowhere faster."
- Author Unknown |
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"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."
- Author Unknown |
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"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off
more than he can chew."
- Herb Caen |
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"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force."
- Lao Tzu |
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"Once the game is over, the king and the
pawn go back in the same box."
-
Italian Proverb |
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"Time is a created thing. To say, 'I
don't have time', is like saying, 'I
don't want to."
- Lao Tzu |
"Pain is the best instructor, but no one
wants to go to his class."
- Choi, Hong Hi |
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"We do not rise to the level of our
expectations. We fall to the level of
our training."
- Author Unknown |
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"At the higher stages of energy contin-
uation, one will find his movements are
now being governed by the movement of
his internal energy."
- Wu Ta-yeh |
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"If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I
expect him to get the other
three-fourths himself, otherwise I do
not want him as a student."
- Confucius |
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"Meditation does not answer the
questions of the mind, but it dissolves
the very mind which creates many
questions and confusion in our life."
- Author Unknown |
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is
that which enables us to count our
blessings."
- Eric Hoffer |
""When you judge another, you never
define them, you define yourself."
- Wayne Dyer |
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"Smooth seas do not make skillful
sailors"
- African Proverb |
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but
if you want to test a man's
character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln |
"The two most prestigious schools
at which to study are History and Mother Nature.
Both are within walking distance, they
accept everyone and admission is free."
- Constantino Terrigno |
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"You can hope for a miracle in your
life, or you can realize that your life
is the miracle."
- Robert Brault |
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"When written in Chinese the word
'crisis'
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other
represents opportunity."
- John F. Kennedy |
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"When one bases his life on principle,
99 percent of his decisions are already
made."
- Author Unknown |
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"The mind, once expanded to the
dimensions of larger ideas, never
returns to its original size."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there
is nothing more to add, but when there
is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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"Courage is not the
absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more
important than fear."
- Ambrose Redmoon |
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"The human spirit
needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of
man." - Author
Unknown |
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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides
our manners."
- Laurence Sterne |
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"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has
happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very
moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything
new. Right now."
- Author Unknown |
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"Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their
dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those
who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure."
- Author Unknown |
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"Teaching is not
about yourself and your own needs. It is about helping others travel
the bumpy road to self-reliance, preservation, and the real- ization to
the undeniable truth, "YES I CAN"!
- Mr.
Sean J. Argir, Cho Dan
|
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"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because
he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into
the big jigsaw puzzle."
- Deepak Chopra |
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"Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the
special occasion."
- Author Unknown |
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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
- Cree Indian Proverb |
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"I see that the
future is a respon-
siblity not a certainty, it is in my service to
others that I benefit myself the most."
- Gabriel Binette - Cho
Dan |
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"Children are
natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach
them good manners."
- Author Unknown
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"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only
in a quiet mind is there adequate percept- tion of the world."
- Hans Margolius |
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"You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do
not mean
that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I
mean
that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you
sit or stand or walk or raise your arms."
- Gichin
Funakoshi
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"The best day of
your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No
apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift is
yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the
quality of it. This is the day your life really begins."
- Bob Moawad
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"Pour some water
into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the
water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let
it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The
human brain works much the same way."
- Koichi Tohei, Ki in
Daily Life |
"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."
- Author Unknown |
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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides
our manners."
- Laurence Sterne |
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"If you really put a
small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise
your price."
- Author Unknown
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"Who looks outside,
dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl G. Jung |
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"Human potential
stops at a point somewhere beyond infinity."
- Toller Cranston |
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"Fear is a darkroom
where negatives develop."
- Usman B. Asif |
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"We shall require a
substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
- Albert
Einstein
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"Ability may get
you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
- John Wooden
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"The
cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person."
- Norman Vincent Peale
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"In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who
couldn't care more."
- Author Unknown |
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"Wisdom is the
reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to
talk." - Doug
Larson |
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"The gem cannot be
polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
- Chinese Proverb
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"Opportunities are
never lost; someone will take the one you miss." - Author Unknown
|
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"Look at everything
as though you were seeing it for the first or last time."
- Betty Smith
|
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"Nature does not
hurry, yet everything is accomplished"
- Lao Tzu
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"Silent" and
"listen" are spelled with the same letters.
- Author Unknown
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"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you
are."
- Chinese Proverb
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"One should examine
oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."
- Moliere
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"Many
great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not
stand being laughed at."
- Author Unknown
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"A teacher's
purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image."
- Author Unknown
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what
you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holz
|
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"Man, despite his
artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many accomplishments,
owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it
rains." - Author Unknown
|
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"I've learned that
people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
|
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"People are like
stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there
is a light from within."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
|
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"Always be a
first-rate version of your- self, instead of a second-rate version of
someone else."
- Judy Garland
|
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"Respect your
efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When
you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."
- Clint Eastwood
|
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"The best way to
predict your future is to create it" -
Peter Drucker
|
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"Teaching is the
profession that teaches all the other professions."
- Author Unknown
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"The only real
mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
- John Powell
|
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"Success is how high
you bounce when you hit bottom."
- General George Patton
|
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"Physical strength
is measured by what we carry; spiritual by what we can bear."
-
Author Unknown |
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"The best way to
knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back."
-
Author Unknown |
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"One
half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before
you get it."
-
Sidney Howard |
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"It is easier to
build strong children than it is to repair broken men."
- Frederick Douglas
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"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
-
Edmund Burke |
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"I
have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-
Thomas Edison |
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"Promise only what you can deliver, then deliver more than you promise."
-
Author Unknown |
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"It's
not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not."
-
Author Unknown |
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"Life
is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only
spend it once."
-
Lillian Dickson |
| "If
you don't control your mind, someone else will."
- John
Allston |
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"How
people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours."
- Wayne
Dyer |
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"If
you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it."
- Author
Unknown |
| "Some
people walk in the rain, others just get wet."
- Roger
Miller |
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"A
wise decision at the right moment is better than a tough lesson"
-
Han Ying |
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"The
impossible can always be broken down into possibilities."
-
Author Unknown |
"When
people are laughing they're generally not killing each other"
- Alan Alda |
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"We don't know who we are until we see
what we can do."
- Martha
Grimes |
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"As soon as you trust yourself,
you
will know how to live."
-
Johann van Goethe |
"Opportunities are missed by most people because they are dressed in
overalls and look like work."
-Thomas
Edison |
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"To avoid situations in which you might make
mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
- Peter McWilliams |
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"To acquire knowledge one must study; but to acquire wisdom one must
observe."
- Marilyn vos Savant |
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"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 |
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"Now that it's all over, what did you
really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?"
- Coleman Cox |
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"In the confrontation between the stream
and the rock, the stream always wins - not through
strength but by perseverance."
-
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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"Life is an echo. What you send out comes back."
- Chinese Proverb |
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"A
man wrapped up in himself makes
a very small package."
- Benjamin
Franklin |
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"I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson |
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you
see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford |
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"A man who has committed a
mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
-
Confucius |
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"What lies behind us and what
lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"The cyclone derives its power
from a calm center. So does a person."
- Norman Vincent Peale |
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"The human spirit is stronger
than anything that can happen to it."
- C.C. Scott |
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"See simplicity in the
complicated. Achieve greatness in little things."
- Lao-Tzu |
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"Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test first...the lesson afterward."
- Author
Unknown |
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"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits
that separate them." -Confucius |
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"Growth is the only evidence of life".
- John Henry
Newman |
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"You start cutting your wisdom
teeth the moment you bite off more than you can chew."
- Herb Caen |
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"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 |
"The only exercise some people
get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends,
side-stepping respon- sibility, and pushing their luck!"
- Author Unknown |
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"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 |
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"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 |
"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced
by your fears."
- Arthur Koestler |
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"All know the way; few actually walk it."
- Bodhidharma |
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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run
over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers |
"When you do the
common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention
of the world."
- George Washington Carver |
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"Many of life's
failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up."
- Thomas A. Edison |
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"Use what talent you
possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except
those
that sang best."
- Henry Van Dyke |
|
"Success is the
ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-
Sir Winston Churchill |
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"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in
your mind." - Anonymous |
|
"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 |
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"Teachers open the
door. You enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb |
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"Meditation is not a
means to an end. It is both the means and the end."
- Krishnamurti |
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"The quieter you
become, the more you can hear." - Baba Ram Dass |
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"A goal without a plan
is just a wish."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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"Three things cannot be
long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Buddha |
"Effort and courage are
not enough without purpose and direction."
- John F. Kennedy |
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"No one can make you
feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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"Adversity cause some men
to break; others to break records."
- William Arthur Ward |
"When you are not
practicing, rem- ember, someone somewhere is practicing, and
when you meet
him
he will win."
- Ed Macauley |
|
"Nearly all men can stand
adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-
Abraham Lincoln |
|
"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 |
"It is a great ability to
be able to conceal one's ability."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
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"You must be the change
you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi |
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"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 |
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"To the world you might be one person,
but to one person you might be the world."
- Author Unknown |
|
"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 |
|
"We are all spiritual
beings having a human experience." - Author
Unknown |
|
"If you are not happy
here and now, you never will be." - Taisen Deshimaru |
"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 |
|
"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 |
|
"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 |
|
"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 |
|
"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 |
|
"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 |
|
"The less effort, the faster and more
powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee |
|
"All that we are is a result of what
we have thought." - Buddha |
|
"Life is the art of drawing without an
eraser". - John W. Gardner |
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"Control your emotions or they will
control you." - Chinese Adage |
|
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use
it wisely". - Auguste Rodin |
|
"Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing
yourself is enlightenment." - Lao-Tzu |
|
"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 |
|
"When you reach the end
of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what
you should
sense".
- Kahlil Gibran |
|
"Every
adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of
an equivalent
or greater benefit." - Napolean Hill |
|
"Technical knowledge is not enough.
One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes
an artless art, growing out of the unconscious."
- Daisetsu Suzuki |
|
"Self-discipline leads to
higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing.
The
clearer the goal, the greater the result."
-
Deng Ming-Dao |
|
"A man who has attained mastery of an
art reveals it in his every action." - Samurai Maxim |
|
"The angry man will defeat himself in
battle as well as in life."
- Samurai Maxim |
|
"I think most of us would learn better
if we didn't think so much of ourselves."
- Kensho Furuya |
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