As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
When you succeed be proud of yourself and know that not everyone gets to experience the thrill of success on a consistent basis.
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
