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May these quotes about Contests inspire and motivate you.
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
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