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Inspirational Quotes |
"I wouldn't call Musashi ordinary. But he is.
That's what's extraordinary about him. He's not content with relying on what
natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he's always trying to improve
himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his
years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking
about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men that don't try very hard comfort
themselves." -From the novel Musashi about master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
"I learned that it is
the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the
strong."
"I never, never go into a wrestling match thinking
I could get beat. The thought of losing never crosses my mind. There
is no reason for me to get beat. I know that I have more ability than
anyone I wrestle. When I lose it means I didn't wrestle to my full
potential. The solution to everything is to work harder." "If a man hasn't discovered
something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live." "If you never try you can nevr succeed. If you try
and to the best you can, you will never fail." "If things don't go your way, what can you do? You
cannot control the outcome. All you can control is your effort. if
you worry too much about the results, then your effort will suffer." "You never fail until you stop trying."
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." "It's
always too early to quit." "The art
of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as
you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving."
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours
per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa,
Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
"Its kind of fun to do the impossible" "Never let the fear of striking out
get in your way." "Success is how high you bounce
when you hit bottom." "If you can DREAM it you can DO
it."
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch
somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. "
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. "
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. "
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you
just sit
"The goal I believe is important is the goal of making the most
of your "I
love to sweat, work and practice....then win. But to sweat, work and "The difference between a
successful person and other is not a lack of strength not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will." "Do not follow where the path may
lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." "A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds." "It is what you learn after you
know it all that counts." "You haven't failed until you quit
trying." "Success is the ability to go from
failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." "Success in never final." "I have never failed, I've found
10,000 ways that didn't work." |