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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: FUEL FOR THE SPIRIT |
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FUEL FOR THE SPIRIT
It is difficulties that show what men are. Therefore, when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you against a rough opponent. "For what purpose?" you may say. Why, that you may become an Olympic conqueror. But it is not accomplished without sweat.
- Epictetus
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
- Louis L'Amour
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors
- Plautus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing
- Abraham Lincoln
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is
- Catfish Hunter
The strongest of all warriors are these two - time and patience
- Leo Tolstoy
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow
- Louis L'Amour
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do
- Epictetus
I only train on days ending in a Y
- Neil Ohlenkamp
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way
- Viktor Frankel
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What is mastery? At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path
- George Leonard
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says "I can still do it," he's a champion
- Evander Holyfield
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places no shower will ever reach
- Dr. George Sheehan
If you are going through hell, keep going
- Winston Churchill
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt
- Ortega y Gasset
You just can't beat the person who never gives up
- Babe Ruth
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing
- Marcus Aurelius
We cannot guarantee success. We can only deserve it
- Winston Churchill
90% of the game is half mental
- Yogi Berra
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner aspects of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives
- William James
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go
- William Feather
Nana karobi ya okii. (Fall seven times, get up eight times)
- attributed to 15th Century monk Bokuden
It's not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment and heartbreak. You must learn to face danger and understand fear, yet not be afraid. You establish your goal, and no matter what deters you along the way, in every waking moment you must say to yourself I CAN DO IT!
- Amelia Earhardt
If one does not fail at times then one has not challenged himself sufficiently
- Dr. Ferdinand Porsche
Pain revealed what the Will is. Not determination about the future. Not a decision about what is to be done. Will is the acceptance of the Now, the painful, suffering, exhausting present in which I now exist.
- Dr. George Sheehan
When your arms are so tired that you can’t lift your guard - Fight one more round. When your legs are so tired that you can’t get to the middle of the ring - Fight one more round.
When you are so tired you wish your opponent would put you to sleep - Fight one more round.
The man who will always fight one more round is never beat!
- James J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett
It’s what the champion does that makes him a champion...It’s what the other guy doesn’t do, that makes him a coward
- Constantine “Cus” D’Amato
It is not because things are difficult that we dare not, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult
- Seneca
A champion is someone who gets back up - even if they can’t
- Jack Dempsey
I must not fear. Fear is the Mind-Killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone will be nothing, only I will remain.
- The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear (from Frank Herbert's "Dune")
Who dares, wins
- Motto of the British Special Air Service
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance
- Samuel Johnson
Not to yield says it all. The enduring, the surviving, does not stop with age. We may even grow more skillful at it as the years pass. So we do not envy youth. We ask no quarter of life. We accept no favors. We are men following virtue and knowledge
- Dr. George Sheehan
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
- Satchel Paige
Pain? What’s pain? I’ve had pain all my life. I’ve been hurt all my life. I’m never going to have the pain gone. The pain’s not going to be gone until I die. I’ve got too many joints that are beat up. It’s just the way it is
- Dan Gable
Though a warrior be called a dog or a beast, what is basic for him is to win
- Asakura Norikage (1474 - 1555 A.D.)
Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger)
- Olympic Motto
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Goethe
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