"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
-- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
"Whatever evil you do today, tomorrow or so, the same shall return back to you someway, somehow... Don't be surprised."
-- submitted by Nilton Rocas
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't. You're right."
-- Henry Ford
-- submitted by John Wheeler
"You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do"
-- Anon
"In a battle, the problem is not your enemy but your own fear"
-- submitted by Agustin Medina
"The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences"
-- Chinese Proverb
-- submitted by Agnieszka
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission"
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
-- submitted by Dave Gent
They say 'There's always a light at the end of the tunnel', I'd rather say: 'There's always been a light in the tunnel' you just had your eyes closed all the way. Stop fearing, start living.
-- submitted by Nancy Wognin
I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
-- Thomas Edison
"We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
-- Jacob Bronowski
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him"
-- David Brinkley
"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart."
-- Chuck D, from "He Got Game" by Public Enemy
"You can't help someone uphill without getting closer to the top yourself."
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
-- Harry S Truman
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it."
-- Michelangelo Buonarroti, "(attributed)"
"Good, better, best - never let it rest - till your good is better - and your better best."
-- John Furphy
"Every single day, you have to start again."
-- Augustus Hill, OZ
-- submitted by Ant G
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
-- Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
-- submitted by Dave Gent
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas Edison
-- submitted by Ben Gosling 1st TG
"We do not rise to the level of our expectations.
We fall to the level of our training"
"Practice is the best of all instructors."
-- Publilius Syrus
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
-- submitted by Alan Sawyer
"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it"
-- Anon
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
-- Burton Hills
"You do not need to put out somebody elses light for yours to shine."
-- submitted by Arron Hudd
"Pain is temporary pride is forever"
-- submitted by Arron Hudd
"We are our only adversery, to win the war within...surrender to yourself"
-- submitted by Nancy Wognin
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."
-- Horace, "Odes"
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
--Soren Kierkegaard
"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
--Mark Twain
"There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought."
--Elbert Hubbard
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
-- Jonathan Winters
"Life is what happens when you are making other plans"
-- John Lennon
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind"
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Those things in life we find the hardest to do, are the things we
are the most thankful we did."
-- submitted by Dean Montandon
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-- Vince Lombardi
-- submitted by Dave Gent
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Learning is like rowing against the curent. As soon as you stop, you start going backwards."
On Single Combat
-- Grandmaster Sigun K. Kernspecht
-- Submitted by Ben G, 1st Tech.
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
-- Bruce Lee
-- submitted by Dave
"War is a series of catastrophies that results in a victory."
--Georges Clemenceau
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
--Franklin D Roosevelt
"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself.
There must be contests, and you must win."
Edward Gibbon
"An eye for an eye only ends up
making the whole world blind"
M.K.Gandhi
"More sweat in practice,less blood in war"
"We do not grow unless we take risks!"
Submitted by Dean Montandon
"Whatever the mind can concieve & believe, the mind can achieve."
Dr Napoleon Hill
--Submitted by Sara
"Should you desire the great
tranquility, prepare to sweat."
Hakuin
"Character is like a tree and reputation like it's shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln
"I seek not to know the answers,
but to understand the questions"
submitted by Dean Montandon
"If only the eyes could hit"
Bruce Lee
--submitted by Ant G
"We are all ready to win, just as we are born knowing only life.
It is defeat that you must prepare for"
Han, Enter The Dragon
--submitted by Ant G
"There is always some madness in love,
but there is also always some reason in madness"
Frederick Nietzsche
--Submitted by Callum 'the big mac' McDonald
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have"
Thomas Jefferson
"He who questions training, only trains himself to ask questions"
The Sphinx
from the movie "Mystery Men"
--submitted by Alex Tennant 2nd TG
"Do not worry if others do not understand you.
Worry if you do not understand them."
Confucius
--Submitted by Jay 'the dragon' Bennett
"The nearest thing to mental exercise most people get is jumping to conclusions"
Author unknown
--Submitted by Jason Blakey 1st TG
"Insanity in individuals is rare
- but in groups, parties, nations
& epochs, it is the rule."
Frederick Nietzsche
"Heroes never die, they just reload."
Rambo
--Submitted by Lee Smith 1st TG
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"
Bruce Lee
--submitted by Steve Evans
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell
"Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
submitted by Darren Brook
"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery"
Samuel Smiles
"Passion makes the world go round,
Love just makes it a safer place"
Ice T.
"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."
William Arthur Ward
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
John A. Shedd
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities"
Oscar Wilde
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties:
you alter the difficulties,
or you alter yourself to meet them."
Phyllis Battome
--submitted by Darren Brook
"What we think, we become"
Buddha
--submitted by Sacha
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"
Winston Churchill
--submitted by Darren Brook
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
Anatole France
--submitted by Kim Chapman
"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing"
Albert Einstein
--submitted by Darren Brook
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;
He who does not ask a question
remains a fool forever"
"A prudent man considers important not what fate has denied him, but what it has given him."
Baltasar Gracian
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
Vernon Saunders Law
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"
Mahatma Gandhi
"To improve is to change,
to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
"Failure lies not in falling down,
but in not getting up."
"Whosoever may torment you, harass you, confound you, or upset you, is a teacher, not because they're wise, but because you seek to become so."
Mike Dooley
"If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow
"It is a Disgrace for a Gentlemans words to be Greater than his Deeds"
Confucios
"A coward dies a thousand deaths a hero dies only once"
"Conquer Yourself Before Others"
"Journey of a Thousand Miles starts with a Single Step"
Lao Zi
"The more laws made, the more criminals created"
Lao Zi
"Softness overcomes hardness"
Zuo Qiuming
"The Coward has a dream, the brave man has a vision"
"The blacker the Wok, the better the cook"
"The creature born is the creature dying"
Zhuang Zi
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know"
Lao Zi
