“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.” ~ Reba McEntire
“Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.” ~ John Demartini
“It’s not how hard you do it, but how easy and natural you do it. There’s a big difference between a forced smile and a natural smile.” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen
“Knowledge comes from your instructors, wisdom comes from within.” ~ Dan Inosanto
“Power has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. Forget about the other person’s power. First, learn to control your own power. Second, learn to control your opponent’s power. Third, learn not to be controlled.” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen
“The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” ~ Ronald Reagan
“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.” ~ W. A. Ward
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ~ Dr. Seuss
“The art of karate is a never ending quest for perfection… of developing the spirit and body to defeat your opponent… one’s self.” ~ Tak Kubota
“Don’t fight with yourself. Then you have one less enemy. How can you control anyone else if you can’t control yourself?” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen
“Success is less a matter of knowing what to do than it is remembering to do what you know.” ~ Robert Pater
“The greatest warrior conquers himself first.” ~ Ancient Martial Arts Maxim
“The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.” ~ Robertson Davies
“The sole purpose of education is to be able to detect when a man is talking rot.” ~ Unknown
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” ~ Stephen Covey
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand