THE WAY OF LIFE

A man is born gentle and weak.

At his death he is hard and stiff.

Green plants are tender and filled with sap.

At their death they are withered and dry.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.

The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle.

A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

The soft and weak will overcome.

The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror. It grasps nothing. It expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold. Therefore, the perfect man can act without effort.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

What is concentration?

Wherever you are, be there!

Control your emotion or it will control you.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

To know and to act are one and the same.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

A good martial artist should be able to go from any position or stance and strike his opponent without telegraphing his intention.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

When you rearrange the letters L-I-S-T-E-N, what word do you get?

SILENT.

There is a gold mine, in your goal mind.

Think of your imagination as a skill rather than a talent and learn to use it.

It’s not your talent or the gifted birth,

It’s not your bankbook that determines worth,

It isn’t in your gender or the color of your skin,

It’s your attitude that lets you win!

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

When you want to be honored by others, you learnto honor them first.

Stop stewing and start doing! Take action TNT. Today, Not Tomorrow.

To a shaman imagination is a vehicle that sends thoughtsand feelings to make real changes in the physical world.

It's not what you are that holds your back, it's what you think you're not.

The most important three words you can say to yourself: “Yes, I can!”

If you believe you can… you probably can. If you believe you won't… you most assuredly won't.

You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've neverconsidered doing

Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

When your image improves, your performance improves.

It’s not what you know, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

Dream big dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and our outer life are in harmony.

It is not what happens to you but how you respond to what happens to you that determines how you feel.

 Refuse to make excuses or blame anyone for anything.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

The soil says, “Don’t bring me your need, Bring me your seed.”

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say instead, “If I can, I will."

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Good ideas are like mushroom; where one is found there are often more.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power, and magic in it  

Even if you are on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there.

Throughout the developed world, we have moved from “manpower” to “mindpower.” We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

If you want to be a knight, act like a night

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself.