Michael Johnson
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Be who you are in every situation.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Adventure is worthwhile.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
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If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
We're on a mission from God.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Keep the Faith.
We belong dead.
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Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Attitude determines altitude.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Every dog has his day.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.