"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once. I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
-- Bruce Lee
Ένας νικητής είναι ένας χαμένος που προσπάθησε άλλη μια φορά.
"The most dangerous opponent is myself."
-- Pavel Eljanov at the opening ceremony of the 79th Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
--Constantin Brancusi
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased."
--Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling."
--Claude Pepper
"Think you can, think you can't... either way you're right."
"When there is no wind, row."
--Portuguese Proverb
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way
of standing still."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by
yourself."
--Chinese Proverb
"One who makes no mistakes never makes anything."
"The ones we call crazy for trying to change the world are
the ones that do."
"If you want to know your past life, look into your present
condition; if you want to know your future, look into your
present action."
--Padmisambha
"If you wait for perfect conditions you will never get
anything done."
--Mike Seseed
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when she sticks
his neck out."
--James B. Conant
"Some people treat life like a slot machine putting in as
little as possible while hoping for the jackpot."
"Focus on the solution, not the problem."
"Most people live the first half of their life trying to
figure out what they're going to do, and the second half of their
life regretting they never did anything."
"Pressure and time transform coals into diamond."
"I don't believe there are any lazy people just some that
are currently uninspired."
--Zig Ziglar
"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to meet
it."
"You will never find time for anything. You must make
it."
--Charles Buxton
"It is better to light one candle than curse the
darkness."
--Motto of the Christopher Society
"Αυτός που θέλει να κινήσει τη γη, ας κινηθεί πρώτα ο ίδιος"
--Σωκράτης
"Even the longest journey begins with a single step."
"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are
built for."
"Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who
fail to try."
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the
grandest intention."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising
every time we fall."
--Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not
stop."
--Confucius
"It is not of importance where we stand, but in what
direction we are moving."
"Success is not measured by what you do compared to what
someone else does; success is measured by what you do compared to
what you could have done."
--Zig Ziglar
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climps but
how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
--General Patton
"Success comes before work only in a dictionary."
--Vince Lombardo
"Failure is success when we learn from it."
"Failure is a temporary experience on the way to succeed. It
is part of the learning process."
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is
finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
--Richard Bach
"The person who really wants to do something finds a way;
the other finds an excuse."
"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can.
Relaxing your brain is fatal."
--Stirling Moss