“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
“Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.”
“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
“Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”
“Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
“When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style”
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.”
“Either push your limits or die.”
“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”
“The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.”
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
“You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.”
“The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.”
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
“Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.“
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”
“Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
“Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can’t be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.”
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”
“When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.”
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”
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