Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
- Topic: Expectations, Goals, Life, Self
- Location: Bonsai Rock, Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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A winner never taught me how to quit.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
