Quotes
Quotes by me will have no author cited. Otherwise I will either cite the author or put “- Unknown” if I don’t know who the author is.
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. ” - Plato
“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." - John C. Maxwell
“Rule your mind or it will rule you. “ - Horace
“There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.” - Jose Eduardo dos Santos
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." - Thucydides
“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.” - Chinese Proverb
“Not knowing is not shameful, not asking is." - Turkish Proverb
“A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness." - Turkish Proverb
“The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil." - Turkish Proverb
“Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose." - Turkish Proverb
“Nothing will happen in your life unless you try something." - Russian Proverb
“Without effort, you won’t even pull a fish out of a pond." - Russian Proverb
“Beauty requires sacrifice.” – Russian Proverbs
“There is no hand to catch time." - Indian Proverb
““He who does not climb, will not fall either.” - Indian Proverb
“Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water.” - Indian Proverb
““Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.” - Buddha
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - Buddha
“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin." - Buddha
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” - Epictetus
“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." - Buddha
“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." - Buddha
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year, make a resolution to be yourself.” - Unknown
“In this new year, be grateful that God has given you victory over many things over the past year.” - Steven M. Hitchcock
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” - F.M. Knowles
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” - Robin Sharma
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” - J.P. Morgan
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” - William E. Vaughan
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”” - Bill Vaughan
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.” - Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius (I would add: The quality of your thoughts depends upon the consistency of positive action).
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius
“It isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Wherever a person can live, there one can also live well” - Marcus Aurelius
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all” - Marcus Aurelius
“We are like many pellets of incense falling on the same altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference” - Marcus Aurelius
“The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress—a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.” - Marcus Aurelius
“You have been formed of three parts—body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Kindness is invincible, but only when it’s sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking. For what can even the most malicious person do if you keep showing kindness and, if given the chance, you gently point out where they went wrong—right as they are trying to harm you?” - Marcus Aurelius
“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.” - Charlotte Carpenter
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime” - Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” - Larry Wilde
“When we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them” - Sigrid Undset
“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see” - The Polar Express
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” - Hamilton Wright Mabie
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights” - Maya Angelou
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.” - scorce
“If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.” - Faith Hill
“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” - Bob Phillips
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” - Matthew 5:17
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” - Matthew 6:27
“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” - Matthew 7:11
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” - Matthew 11:28
“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” - Matthew 12:33
“Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing is impossible for you. - Matthew 17:20
“Love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” - Matthew 22:37
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” - Matthew 22:39
“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?” - Matthew 18:12
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” - Mark 10:14
“Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean’.” - Mark 7:15
“The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.” - Luke 6:45
“And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.” - Luke 11:46
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” - Luke 12:6
“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” - Mark 11:24
“My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.” - John 7:16
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD.” - Jeremiah 17:7
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
“And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” - Romans 5:2-5
“I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope.” - Psalm 130:5
“And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered Him faithful who had made the promise. - Hebrews 11:11
“Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.” - Bhagavad Gita
“Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.” - Bhagavad Gita
“Having hands and feet everywhere; having eyes, head, and face everywhere; having ears everywhere; the creator exists in the creation by pervading everything.” - Bhagavad Gita
“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.” - Bhagavad Gita
“Work for work’s sake, not for yourself. Act but do not be attached to your actions. Be in the world, but not of it.” - Bhagavad Gita
“Man cannot be judged by looks; seas cannot be measured by the cup.” - Chinese Proverb
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.” - Plato
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” - Buddha
“Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity.” - Buddha
“If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.” - Buddha
“Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.” - Buddha
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao-Tzu
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love.” - Sophocles
“Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain: the one brings pain for a moment, the other for all time.” - Chilon of Sparta
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises” - Demosthenes
“They can conquer who believe they can.” - Virgil, Roman poet
“People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure” - Lao-Tzu
“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.” - Pythagoras
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.” - Euripides
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” - Confucius
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” - Jesus Christ
“Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.” - Prophet Muhammad
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” - Jesus Christ Matthew 7:7-8
“The greatest jihad (struggle/striving) is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.” - Prophet Muhammad
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” - Buddha
“A father gives nothing better than good education.” - Prophet Muhammad
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” - Buddha
“You don’t have a Soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” - Buddha
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” - Buddha
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.” - Rumi
“Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave.” - Prophet Muhammad
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” - Jesus Christ, Bible NIV 7
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” - Rumi
“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” - Rumi
“A kind word is a form of charity.” - Prophet Muhammad
“Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.” - Rumi
“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” - Rumi
“You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” - Rumi
“Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” - Rumi
"“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”” - Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” - Buddha
“When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach you something.” - Buddha
“IT IS IMPERATIVE TO MASTER THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ART OF WAR AND LEARN TO BE UNMOVED IN MIND EVEN IN THE HEAT OF THE BATTLE.” - Miyamoto Musashi
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” - Nelson Mandela
“Everyone is a genius at something but if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree it’ll live out it’s whole life thinking it’s a fool.” — Albert Einstein
“It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.” - Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela
“True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“A warrior’s mission is to foster the success of others.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.” - Morihei Ueshiba
“If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.” - Mas Oyama
“One must try, everyday, to expand one’s limits.” - Mas Oyama
“One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.” - Mas Oyama
“Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.” - Mas Oyama
“The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.” - Mas Oyama
“A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.” - Mas Oyama
“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.” - Kano Jigoro
“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.” - Kano Jigoro
“Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.” - Kano Jigoro
“Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.” - Kano Jigoro
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.” - Proverbs 29:25
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain
“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Augustine Og Mandino
“When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” — Melissa McCarthy
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anaïs Nin
“The man who takes more pride in the steps to attain the result than the result itself cannot be stopped.” - Wes Watson
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The work truly instills the worth. The only thing that gives you confidence is the work you put in. Your self-worth is directly correlated to your self-investment.” - Wes Watson
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” - Japanese Proverb
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” - Steve Jobs
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Aint nuttin’ but a peanut.” - Ronnie Coleman
“Stop being a fucking victim! Take ownership, responsibility and put some fucking work in! You’ll feel better when you do better not the other way around!”
“The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.” - Kai Greene
“I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life. All that I am. All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions. I’ve conditioned my mind. Trained my body. Sacrificed my soul. There will be obstacles. Doubters. Mistakes. But nothing comes to those who wait. Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”
- Kai Greene
“Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you’re not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.” - Dorian Yates
“People pay you by the value you provide them. God gives based on how hard you work. Combine the two with gratitude and you have a winning formula.”
“Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.” - Myamoto Musashi
“It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.” - Miyamoto Musashi
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” - Victor Hugo
“The sage is ready to use all situations and doesn’t waste anything. This is called embodying the light.” - Lao Tzu
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” - Seneca
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.” - Confucius
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.” - Patanjali
“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.” - Hypatia of Alexandria, lived circa 400 CE in Alexandria, Egypt.
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Epictetus
“A house divided cannot stand.” - Arabic Proverb
“Dripping water can penetrate the stone.” - Chinese Proverb
“If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.” - Titus Maccius Plautus
“A harmonious family leads to prosperity in everything.” - Chinese Proverb
“An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.” - Publilius Syrus
“There is nothing difficult in the world as long as you set your mind to it.” - Chinese Proverb
“Wake early if you want another man’s life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battle’s won in bed.” - The Havamal
“Better to be a broken piece of jade than an intact piece of pottery.” - Chinese Proverb
“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.” - Buddha
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly then to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” - Bhagavad Gita
“There are three gates leading to the hell of self-destruction for the soul—lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one should abandon all three.” - Bhagavad Gita
“Even monkeys fall from trees.” - Japanese Proverb
“Examine what is said, not who is speaking.” - African Proverb
“Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it.” - African Proverb
“No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree.” - African Proverb
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” - Marcus Aurelius
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.” - Aristotle
”Difficulties strengthen the mind as labour does the body.” - Seneca
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” - Buddha
”I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” - Aristotle
”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle
”Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” - Aristotle
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.” - Miyamoto Musashi
“Man is the noblest of all animals. Separate him from law and justice and he is the worst.” - Aristotle
““What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” - Buddha
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” - Senneca
“When it’s hard it matters most.” - Wes Watson
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool.” - Senneca
“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” - Denis Waitley
“It’s not about you! It’s about all the people who’s lives are made infinitely better by you being and becoming your greatest self.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” - Senneca
“A person who never made a mistake is a person who never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein.
“Discipline equals freedom! GET AFTER IT!!!” - Jocko Willink (Obviously)
“Make yourself so strong you can laugh at the things that used to break you!”
“Your BEST life or your worst. The choice is yours to make every single day!”
“While we wait for life, life passes.” - Senneca
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill
”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle