“A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort” (Herm Albright)

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult” (Senica)

“Thought can make you; thought can break you” (Swami Sukhabodhananda)

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

“What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” (Robert Schuller)

“Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it” (Josephus Daniels)

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been” (Wayne Gretzky)

“The greatest discovery oy my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind” (William James, (1842-1910)

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race” ( Calvin Coolidge)

“you can never discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conservation”(plato)

“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” (Abraham lincoln)

Abraham Lincoln

“Think positive, or think negative. The choice is yours. So is the result. You are what you think; no better, no worse … you have the potential. Believe in yourself! Convince your own mind that you can do anything you want anything!. (Cameron Quin “The Budo Karate of Mas Oyama)

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us” (Joseph Campbell)

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed… every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are the lion or the gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running!” (author unknown)

“We will train out hearts and bodies for a firm unshaking spirit…” (From the Kyoskushinkai Karate Dojo oath)

“Such is life… Seven times down, eight times up” (Japanese Proverb)

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“The door o success says PUSH!” (Anon)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (William Shakespeare, from Hamlet (I , v,166-167)

“Great doubt =Great enlightenment

Small doubts small enlightenment

No doubt = No enlightenment” (Zen Belief)

“Work and play are the same things, but under different conditions” (Mark Twain)

“Those who command themselves command others” (William Hazlitt)

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I way end up by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning” (Mahatma Gandhi)

“A great deal of talent is lost in the world for the want of a little courage” (Sydney Smith)

” Walk up to the Lion and he disappears…

… Run away and he will run after you” (Anon)

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me the most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will some.” (William Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare

“Until one is committed there is always a chance to draw back; always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is an elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no person could have dreamt would come their way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, BEGIN IT! Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. BEGIN IT NOW!” (Johan Wolfgang von Geothe)

“As the water rises, so too does the boat” (The Hagukure)

Between stimulus and response…

Man has the right to choose” (Victor Frankl)

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all” (Vince Lombardi)

“The key to success, is to never give up” (Chris Bougoure)