Inspiration Quotes - Page 200

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

When you don't go within, you go without.

Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Love is the absence of judgment.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.