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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.
I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.
A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.
I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.
In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.
If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.
Don't go to the grave with life unused.
If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.
If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
If you want something, go get it. Period.
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.
The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.