Mike Ditka
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Children are all foreigners.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
There is no education like adversity.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Love sees roses without thorns.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
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.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I don't like your manners.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Love is the only rational act.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
We belong dead.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The road to success is always under construction.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
It is always your next move.
Love is friendship set on fire.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
One million dollars !
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Sanctuary !
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.