Quotes
The indespensible first step to getting things out of life is this:
decide what you want.
Ben Stein
The most important thing about goals is having one
Geoffry E. Abert
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
A race horse that can run a mile a few seconds faster is worth twice as
much. That little extra proves to be the greatest value.
John D Hess
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe
that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that
you can do something, you can do it - as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
What the mind of man can conceive and beleive, the mind of man can
achieve.
Napolean Hill
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility.....In
the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have....is the ability to
take responsibility.
Michael Korda
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 derlicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They
quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a
winning touchdown
H. Ross Perot
Effort only fully releases it reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napolean Hill
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any
kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment; itis not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
Opportunity.....Often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or
temporary defeat.
Napolean Hill
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the
job.
George Crane
We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What
we need is to use what we have.
Basil S. Walsh
You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your
dominant aspiration.
James Allen
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Believe In Yourself
You are your greatest asset
there is nothing you can't do.
No one can keep you from dreaming
only you can stop them coming true.
Your achievements are determined
by the desire that you possess.
Believe in who you are.
Believe in what you do.
It's not a quirk of fate
It's strictly up to you.
Author: Unknown
Then you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where
there wouldn't be a door for anyone else!
Joseph Campbell
"Inherently, each one of us has the substance
within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is
the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have."
Mark Twain
"Nor are they reached by wearing yoga garments or by conversation
about yoga, but only through tireless practice. This is the
secret of success. There is no doubt about it."
From "Hata Yoga Pradipika"
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.
He was the World Champion Sea Bass Fisherman.
"How did you become a World Champion?" I asked him
one day while we were running around the ground together to warm up........
"Intention," he answered. "Intention, vision, and a lot
of practice, practice, practice until I had mastery and could demonstrate
competence."
Alan C Walter
We should distinguish between the acts of the understanding and those of
the will; the first are of comparitively little value, and the others all.
Brother Lawerence
The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness, infinite
and immortal. Separateness arises from identifying the Self with the body, which is made
up of the elements; when this physical identification dissolves, there can be no more
separte self. This is what I want to tell you, beloved.
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Chapter 2, 4:12, p. 38)
...in order to come to union with the wisdom of God, the soul has to
proceed rather by unknowing than by knowing... St. John of the Cross
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached.
Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes
so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a Clear Mind.
Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines?
Bodhidarma
As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.
(Chandogya Upanishad. 10:1-2, pp. 184-185)
"One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge." What
this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of
impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate
yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out. (p. 90)
Takuan Soho
As the rain on a mountain peak runs off the slopes on all sides, so
those who see only the seeming multiplicity of life run after things on every side. As
pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined
man or woman, Nachiketa.
(Katha Upanishad. 1:14-15, p. 92)
If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a
mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine. No creature is so little or so mean as not to
show forth and represent the goodness of God.
(p. 80) Thomas 'a Kempis
Everything is murky and unclear when the Truth is hidden. What is this
Truth?... Anything we define as it is not it. So let go of all concepts and all
definitions.
Dennis Genpo Merzel
Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based on our perceptions.
What we perceive depends on what we look for.
What we look for depends on what we think.
What we think depends on what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.
- Gary Zukav
There is a force within that gives you life -
Seek that.
In your body there lies a priceless jewel -
Seek that.
Oh, wandering Sufi,
if you are in search of the greatest treasure,
don't look outside.
Look within, and seek That.
Jaluddin Rumi
Believe In Yourself
You are your greatest asset
there is nothing you can't do.
No one can keep you from dreaming
only you can stop them coming true.
Your achievements are determined
by the desire that you possess.
Believe in who you are.
Believe in what you do.
It's not a quirk of fate
It's strictly up to you.
Author: Unknown
Then you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where
there wouldn't be a door for anyone else!
Joseph Campbell
"Inherently, each one of us has the substance
within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is
the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have."
Mark Twain
"Nor are they reached by wearing yoga garments or by conversation
about yoga, but only through tireless practice. This is the
secret of success. There is no doubt about it."
From "Hata Yoga Pradipika"
There is a force within that gives you life -
Seek that.
In your body there lies a priceless jewel -
Seek that.
Oh, wandering Sufi,
if you are in search of the greatest treasure,
don't look outside.
Look within, and seek That.
Jaluddin Rumi
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on
past experiences
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
A loss of interest in judging other people
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others
A loss of interest in conflict
A loss of the ability to worry
Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation
Contended feelings of connectedness with others and nature
Frequent attacks of smiling
An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable
urge to extend it
Author: Peace Pilgrim
"People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life... I
think that what we're really seeking is the experience of being alive."
Rudyard Kipling
"You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him to find it within himself."
Galileo
Believe In Yourself
You are your greatest asset
there is nothing you can't do.
No one can keep you from dreaming
only you can stop them coming true.
Your achievements are determined
by the desire that you possess.
Believe in who you are.
Believe in what you do.
It's not a quirk of fate
It's strictly up to you.
Written By: Unknown
As a Man Believes, So He becomes. -
Bahagvat Gita, Chapter 17, Verse 3.
He Has Achieved Success
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love
of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the
world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued
soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has
always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an
inspiration; whose memory is a benediction.
Author: Bessie A. Stanley
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for
life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane
will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality,
so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
Those who are awake
live in a state of constant amazement.
Buddha
Other People's Expectations
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he
took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old
measurements and
expected them to fit me."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"Most people die at age 25, but are not buried until
age 65!"
(Benjamin Franklin)
It you think [believe]…
You Can
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you
can't,
It's almost for sure you won't.
If you think you're losing, you've lost,
For out in the world we find -
Success begins with a person's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high
to rise.
You have to stay with it,
In order to win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go,
To the one with the better plan
For more often than not, you will win,
If only you think you can.
- Kristone
Commitment
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance
to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation).
There is one 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 never 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 man could have dreamed would have
come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it Begin it now!
-Johann Von Goethe
I Am Source
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you
And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Rumi
The Non-Dual State
I have put duality away,
I have seen the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know,
One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last,
He is the outward, he is the inward.
- Rumi
