Blaine Lee
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You only get out what you put in.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Never, never, never give up.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Let's roll.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Union gives strength.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Where there is love there is life.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination