“As long as I have you there is
just one other thing I’ll always need — tremendous self control.”
- Ashleight Brilliant
- Ashleight Brilliant
“People do not lack strength,
they lack will.”
- Victor Hugo
- Victor Hugo
“Gongfu is an ancient Chinese term describing work/devotion/effort that
has been successfully applied over a substantial period of time, resulting in a
degree of mastery in a specific field. Although the term is synonymous in
the West with martial arts (though it is most over rendered Kung Fu), it is equally applicable to
calligraphy, painting, music, or other areas of endeavor.”
- Andy James
- Andy James
“Never give up on what you
really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one
with all the facts.”
- Life’s Little Instruction Calendar
- Life’s Little Instruction Calendar
“The world makes way for the
man who knows where he is going.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best day of your life is
the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
- Bob Moawad
No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
- Bob Moawad
“The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt,
carelessness,
indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga,
and restlessness.”
- Pantanjali, Yoga Sutra (1.30), 200 CE, Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller.
indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga,
and restlessness.”
- Pantanjali, Yoga Sutra (1.30), 200 CE, Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller.
“How like herrings and onions
our vices are in the morning after
we have committed them.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
we have committed them.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Desire is the key to
motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit
of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the
success you seek.”
- Mario Andretti
- Mario Andretti
“You miss 100% of the shots you
don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
- Wayne Gretzky
“Self-will so ardent and active
that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.”
- Richard Cecil
- Richard Cecil
“The world makes way for the
man who knows where he is going.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Willpower is the key to
success. Successful people strive no matter what they
feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
- Dan Millman
feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
- Dan Millman
“Tomorrow is the day when
idlers work, and fools reform.”
- Edward Young
- Edward Young
“What it boils down to is this – it’s up to you to get hold
of you mind, control it, quiet it. God does the rest. And
immediately, as Eckhart says, “The being ready and the pouring in are all
one act.”
- Nancy Pope, Mayorga
- Nancy Pope, Mayorga
“Will is character in action.”
- William McDougall
- William McDougall
“The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- Eleanor Rosevelt
- Eleanor Rosevelt
“We all have dreams. But
in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of
determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
- Jessie Owens
- Jessie Owens
“The most important thing about
having goals is having one.”
- Geoffrey F. Abert
- Geoffrey F. Abert
“Great souls have wills; feeble
ones have only wishes.”
- A Chinese Proverb
- A Chinese Proverb
“A failure establishes only
this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
- John C. Bovee
- John C. Bovee
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