Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
All mankind love a lover.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Would you like to come in ?
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Anything is possible.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Children are all foreigners.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
You create your reality.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Without a general an army is lost.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
To go fast, row slowly.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Love is not selfish.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.