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Some famous and not so famous quotations.

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• "If you think you are good enough, you've just started your decline."-Unknown
• "The zebra wakes every morning and knows he must outrun the fastest lion. The lion wakes every morning and knows he must outrun the slowest zebra. Any way you look at it... whether you're a zebra or a lion, when you get up in the morning, you better be ready to run."-Unknown
• "A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."-Unknown
• "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."-Buddha
• "We need more people who specialize in the impossible."-Unknown
• "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."-Rene Descartes
• "Fall seven times, stand up eight"-Japanese Proverb
• "Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."-Richard Bach
• "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."-Unknown
• "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."-Oliver Wendel Holmes
• "Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."-Ralph W. Sockman
• "Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement; but you never know if it's going to be forward, backward, or sideways."-Unknown
• "TKD just is Shotokan with the serial numbers filed off and aggressive marketing."-Unknown
• "The first five black belt ranks come from what you've gotten out of the system, the next ranks come from what you've given back."-Unknown
• "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."-Unknown
• "She who loses money loses much; She who loses a friend loses more; She who loses faith, loses all."-Unknown
• "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke
• "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."-Eleanor Roosevelt
• "You must do the things you think you cannot do."-Eleanor Roosevelt
• "You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."-Harry Firestone
• "Anger is only one letter short of danger."-Unknown
• "Silence. Once you say the word, it no longer exists."-Unknown
• "Beware the fury of a patient man."-Jake (The Snake) Roberts, professional wrestler
• "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."-Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."-Mark Twain
• "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-Henry Van Dyke
• "Take integrity over popularity and you'll always be cool."-Carlos Santana
• "If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."-Paul Newman
• "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."-Doug Floyd
• "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."-Lao-Tzu
• "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."-Swedish Proverb
• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."-Unknown
• "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."-Lincoln 
• "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."-William Shakespeare 
• "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."-Theodore Roosevelt
• "It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."-Warren Buffet
• "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."-Henry David Thoreau
• "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."-Frederick Douglass
• "A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."-Samurai Maxim
• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."-Maya Angelou
• "Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."-Lao-Tzu
• "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."-George Santayana
• "Nothing is impossible to a willing mind."-Books of Han Dynasty
• "Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."-Frank Herbert
• "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes."-Unknown
• "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."-Buddha
• "Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."-Betty Smith
• "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."-Buddha
• "Power of mind is infinite, while brawn is limited."-Koichi Tohei
• "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."-David Lloyd George
• "Control your emotion or it will control you."-Chinese adage
• "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."-Lord Thomas Dewar
• "The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."-Samurai maxim
• "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."-Robert Byrne
• "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."-Ursula K. LeGuin
• "Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you speak to them."-Unknown
• "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."-Joan Borysenko
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."-Aristotle
• "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."-Sun Tzu
• "You're never a loser until you quit trying."-Mike Ditka
• "You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light."-Hope MacDonald
• "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."-Anonymous
• "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."-Harvey Fierstein
• "He is able who thinks he is able."-Buddha
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning."-Albert Einstein
• "Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything."-Jean-Louis Etienne
• "The journey is the reward."-Tao Saying
• "Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up."-Jesse Jackson
• "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."-Goethe
• "The older black belts get, the greater they were."-Unknown
• "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."-Unknown
• "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."-Leo Rosten
• "There are many black belts that who mistake their imagination for their memory."-Unknown
• "He who angers you conquers you."-Elizabeth Kenny
• "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
• "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."-Publilius Syrus
• "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."-William Blake
• "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."-John Wooden
• "The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."-Unknown
• "Nurture your mind with great thoughts."-Benjamin Disraeli
• "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."-Chinese Proverb
• "Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."-Mark Twain
• "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."-Napoleon
• "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."-Rosalynn Carter
• "Inscriptions on tombstones usually end with two dates, the person's date of birth and date of death, connected by a dash. That dash represents the person's lifetime. Make the most of your dash!"-Unknown
• "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."-Paul Brown
• "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."-Elbert Hubbard
• "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."-Abigail Van Buren
• "Success is traveling from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm."-Churchill
• "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Every exit is an entry somewhere."-Tom Stoppard
• "It's always too early to."-Norman Vincent Peale
• "A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it."-Anonymous
• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."-Confucius
• "This above all; to thine own self be true."-William Shakespeare
• "The result of conformity is that everyone likes you, except yourself."-Unknown
• "It's not the belt that gives the champion respect, but the champion that gives the belt respect."-Shane Douglas
• "We will either find a way, or we will make one."-Hannibal 400BC
• "A winner is willing to do what the loser will not."-Unknown
• "Every day you don't work out someone else does!"-Unknown
• "It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."-Buddha
• "Even monkeys fall from trees."-Unknown
• "I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me."-Archilocus, 650 B.C.
• "Fall seven times, stand up eight."-Japanese Proverb
• "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."-Ambrose Redmoon
• "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."-Gandhi
• "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."-Richard Bach
• "Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it."-Unknown 
• "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."-Confucius
• "Men are born to succeed, not to fail."-Henry David Thoreau
• "If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."-Shunryu Suzuki
• "The sweetest of all sounds is praise."-Xenophon
• "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."-Unknown
• "Eighty percent of success is showing up."-Woody Allen
• "If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain."-Dolly Parton
• "The harder you work, the luckier you get."-McAlexander
• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-Will Rogers
• "The expert at anything was once a beginner."-Hayes
• "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."-Carl Sagan
• "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."-Alexander Hamilton
• "The basis of optimism is sheer terror."-Oscar Wilde
• "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."-William Arthur Ward
• "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."-Jeseph Joubert
• "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."-Oscar Wilde
• "Do all you can, the best you can do, and that's all you can do."-TKDTutor
• "Life is similar to a roll of toilet paper; the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes."-Unknown
• "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."-Unknown
• "At some point, you reach the point, when you find, there is no point."-TKDTutor
• "Be careful of an open mind, it lets its contents leak."-TKDTutor
• "Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking."-Antonio Machado
• "Only a warrior may choose to be passive, others have no choice but to be passive."-TKDTutor
• "Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought."-Unknown
• "That which does not kill us sets up a counter punch."-Unknown
• "Some are wise, some are otherwise."-Unknown
• "The ultimate human freedom is the ability to choose one's attitude in any circumstance."-V. Frank
• "Pain is weakness leaving the body."-Unknown
• "The 7 Obstacles to overcome: ignorance, impatience, confusion, procrastination, anger, fear, and doubt."-Unknown
• "Extraordinary abilities can only come from extraordinary efforts."-Unknown
• "Train hard; fight easy."-Unknown
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."-Unknown
• "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."-Mahatma Gandhi
• "A black Belt is a white belt that never quit!"-Unknown
• "Power is created in the mind, rooted in the feet, developed in the legs, directed by the hips, transferred through the torso, focused in the feet or hands, and felt in the spirit."-C. J. Doyle
• "You can't reach the top unless you start climbing."-Alan Kilpatrick
• "A distraction is only a distraction if you pay attention to it."-Unknown
• "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."-Unknown
• "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway."-Mary Kay Ash
• "There are two ways to spread the light: one is to be the candle, the other is to be the mirror that reflects it."-Unknown
• "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."-Unknown
• "The more you say, the less people remember."-Unknown
• "Caution is good. Courage is better."-Unknown
• "To be yourself, forget yourself."-Unknown
• "The golden thread that runs through the life of all great men is the willingness to fail in order to succeed."-Unknown
• "Part-time effort leads to full-time failure."-Unknown
• "The most important thing is to sacrifice what we are for what we can become!"-Unknown
• "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."-Albert Einstein
• "All know the Way; few actually walk it."-Bodhidharma
• "We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge."-Unknown
• "Every man dies, but not every man truly lives."-Braveheart
• "Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."-Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "Inches make a champion."-Vince Lombardi
• "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."-Sally Kempton
• "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have had a beginning."-John Henry Cardinal Newman
• "Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."-Christina Rossetti
• "This thing we call failure is not falling down but staying down."-Mary Pickford
• "The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."-Unknown
• "Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."-Horace
• "Man cannot live without self-control."-Isaac Bashevis Singer
• "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."-Seneca
• "If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard."-Norman Harris
• "Securing ourselves against defeat lies within our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy lies within the enemy himself."-Sun Tzu
• "Those who live by the sword are usually shot by those who don't."-Unknown
• "Martial Arts should be a way of life, not a job, hobby, or sport, but a part of you and the way you live your life."-Frank Gutting
• "The true value of the martial arts is not in 100 victories but in the perfection of the character of the students."-Gichin Funakoshi
• "It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress."-Okakura Kakuzo
• "The art of the sword consists of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, or the enemy not seeing me and my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven and earth where even yin and yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art."-Takuan
• "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."-Sun-Tsu
• "A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."-Gogen Yamaguchi
• "Five Secrets of Japanese Goju Ryu: Move quickly. Have a sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics."-Gogen Yamaguchi
• "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence."-Lisa M. Amos
• "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."-Winston Churchill
• "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."-Bishop W. C. Magee
• "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."-Theodore Roosevelt
• "One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar."-Helen Keller
• "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."-Seneca
• "If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."-Florence Shinn
• "Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own."-Jacqueline Briskin
• "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent."-Sydney Smith
• "You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . . Confidence makes the difference."-Chris Evert
• "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."-Mildred W. Struven
• "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."-Carl Rogers
• "No one from the beginning of time has had security."-Eleanor Roosevelt
• "I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things."-William J. Locke
• "Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."-Robert G. Ingersoll
• "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."-Theodore Roosevelt
• "Success is a journey, not a destination."-Ben Sweetland
• "Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you."-Mae West
• "There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."-General Douglas MacArthur
• "The way to be safe is never to be secure."-Benjamin Franklin
• "If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present."-James Petersen
• "There is no failure except in no longer trying."-Elbert Hubbard
• "The impossible is often the untried."-Jim Goodwin
• "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."-Edward Gibbon
• "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."-Carrie Fisher
• "If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it."-Kathleen Norris
• "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."-Unknown
• "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."-Benjamin Lipson
• "He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."-Horace
• "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."-Beverly Sills
• "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."-Thomas Jefferson
• "Out of the strain of the Doing., into the peace of the Done."-Julia Louise Woodruff
• "The great end of life is not knowledge but action."-Henry David Thoreau
• "In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."-Unknown
• "I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."-Unknown
• "People can bear anything."-Philip Slater
• "A mistake is simply another way of doing things."-Katharine Graham
• "It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."-Joseph Conrad
• "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it."-William Hazlitt
• "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."-BT. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
• "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."-Charles O. Finley
• "The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions."-Confucius
• "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."-Friedrich Nietzsche
• "The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything."-Lee Iacocca
• "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."-Lady Bird Johnson
• "Act as if it were impossible to fail."-Dorothea Brande
• "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."-William James
• "Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."-Dale Carnegie
• "Don't be humble. You're not that great."-Golda Meir
• "I don't believe in failure. It's not a failure if you enjoyed the process."-Oprah Winfrey
• "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."-Theodore Roosevelt
• "A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."-Axel Munthe
• "The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent."-Edgar Watson Howe
• "There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world."-Oscar Hammerstein II
• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."-Helen Keller
• "Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it."-Thomas Eakins
• "Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experiences."-Katherine Tingley
• "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."-George C. Scott
• "Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."-Lillian Smith
• "Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."-Albert Camus
• "The first step is the hardest."-Madame De Vichy-Deffand
• "We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."-Henry Miller
• "Facing,  always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it!"-Joseph Conrad
• "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck."-Katharine Hepburn
• "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."-Howard W. Newton
• "Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."-Madeline Bridges
• "Crisis creates opportunity."-Walter Klores
• "Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do."-John Milton
• "If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."-Catherine Aird
• "'Disce ut doceas', learn in order to teach."-Aleuin of York (735 - 804 A.D.)
• "When the body is tired, exercise the mind; when the mind is tired, exercise the body."-Unknown
• "Never blame on malice what can be explained by stupidity."-Unknown
•  "When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it, this is knowledge."-Confucius
• "He that is overcautious will accomplish little."-Friedrich von Schiller
• "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."-St. Augustine
• "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."-Harry Truman
• "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."-Pablo Picasso
• "The time is always right to do the right thing."-Martin Luther King Jr.
• "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."-Jonathan Swift
• "The whole of purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."-Sydney J. Harris
• "Learning is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance."-Will Durant
• "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't."-Pete Seeger
• "Education is when you suddenly understand something you've understood your whole life but in a new way."-Doris Lessing
• "Do all you can do; that is all you can do."-TKDTutor
• No one has ever drowned in sweat."-Unknown
• "The word aerobics came about when some gym instructors got together and said, 'If we are going to charge $50 an hour, we cannot just call it jumping up and down."-Unknown
• "If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people."-Jim Eason, radio host
• "I'm not fat, I am just too short for my size."-Unknown
• "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man!"
• "It is not whether you win or lose that’s important, it’s whether I win or lose."
• "Endurance is an expression of love."
• "My heart is my strongest muscle."
• "It hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."-Adlai Stevenson
• "The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss."-Diane Ravitch
• "Being powerful is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t."-Margaret Thatcher
• "Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit."-Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan
• "When things go wrong in your command start searching for the reason in increasingly larger circles around your own two feet."-Gen. Bruce Clarke
• "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers."-Gen. Colon Powell
• "No one may do more than 100% of what they are capable of doing"-TKDTutor
• "Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it."

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