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Quotes by Motivational-speaker

"It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves."

"Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose."

"Do not distance yourself from people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most."

"Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart."

"Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily."

"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."

"To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look."

"You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things."

"Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country."

"Try to create a wall of inspiration around yourself in order to succeed in life."

"The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another."

"The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves."

"Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste."

"You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay."

"Not Eve:Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve."

"Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life."

"Never show your weakness before adversary."

"Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures."

"For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts."

"Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world."

"It's amazing to be a woman because even without children of your own, you can still be an excellent mother."

"Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope."

"What ever you do choose life, don't neglect your dream invest time to make it happen."

"You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it."

"Devoting yourself to a particular art is invaluable. The art becomes our vehicle with which we drive down the road of life. We use this vehicle to learn about ourselves and this place, to conquer fears, to become more of what we already are. In my own life, I have found most valuable the transferable skills of learning from jiu jitsu to all other facets of day to day study. In devoting myself with such commitment to this art, in undertaking the task of understanding jiu jitsu to whatever degree by circumstance allows, I have unknowingly learned how to learn."

"CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets."

"It's said that 'you have only one chance' - but thereafter you have many chances " don't ever quit because chance has only a fifty-fifty probability and you never know when the probability will be in your favour. So toss around until heads you win and tails you don't lose."

"It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to."

"You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves."

"Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human."

"In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man."

"There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other."

"If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?"

"Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too."

"Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are."

"I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth."

"Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to."

"The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?"

"When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny."

"What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure."

"This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self."

"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."

"Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within."

"The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt."

"You were meant to be right here right now...so make the most of it!"

"Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit."

"We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are."

"If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society."

"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."

"Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create."
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