Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
At the peak of tremendous and victorious effort, while the blood is pounding in your head, all suddenly becomes quiet within you. Everything seems clearer and whiter than ever before, as if great spotlights had been turned on. At that moment, you have the conviction that you contain all the power in the world, that you are capable of everything, that you have wings. There is no more precious moment in life than this, the white moment, and you will work very hard for years just to taste it again.—Yuri Vlasov, Soviet Weightlifter
It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about ‘how hard it is;‘ he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn’t go home at 17:00, he is home. He knows only The Cause.“ - anonymous quote
I thought Mother Teresa and Goerge Patton went well together . . .and clearly Mother Teresa wasn’t on the Zone!
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.“ - Mother Teresa “You can get more accomplished by being positive with people than being negative. We’ve always heard that “the squeaky wheel gets the oil” and you have to raise your voice and complain to get anything done, but the truth is if you are a real pain to deal with, you’ll get sabotaged in ways you’ll never even know about.
Dolphin trainers have figured out that if you give the dolphins a tiny fish for jumping through the hoop, the dolphin will jump through the hoop again. The trainers don’t take a baseball bat and beat the dolphin for not jumping through the hoop.
Animal trainers have learned over the years that positive reinforcement is the most efficient training tool in the world. And it’s even more true with humans.“
Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself, 100 Ways to Create Wealth
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.“ -Gandhi
To my mind, it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defencelessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic…...
-Ted Nugent
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less
It is well that war is so terrible—lest we should grow too fond of it.
There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back.
You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one.
