Martial Arts Quotations: Set 3
Try not... DO, or DO NOT, there is no Try. - Yoda
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Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. -Mike Ditka
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Higher consciousness through harder contact! -Dog Brothers
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If you say you're going to do it, and you go out and do it, it ain't braggin'. -Dizzy Dean
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You don't have to like it -- you just have to do it. -Navy Seal saying.
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Once Bruce Lee was accompanying Stirling Silliphant on a 3 mile run. Toward the end, Bruce said that they were now going to "shift gears" and do a couple of extra miles. The writer protested that he was 45 and couldn't do it. After 5 minutes running, Silliphant's head was pounding. "If I run anymore, I'll have a heart attack and die! he gasped. "Then DIE!" said Bruce. This made Silliphant so mad that he did the extra miles.
Later while showering Bruce explained. If you put limits on yourself and what you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread over into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaux. But you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you."
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Your mind can make your train. Your body can create power. Only your heart can make you a champion.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in Everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Source: Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela (South Africa, 1994)