"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself agaisnt yourself and nobody else."




"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."




"The untimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy."




"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."




The time will pass unnoticed.

Karma justifies nothing, yet it justifies everything.
As the World turns we all experience things in life, trials and tribulations that we all must go through day by day.
Be yourself, be true to everything you believe in and success will always follow.
Defeat is a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
To be placed second in a race is to know that you could have won, but simply didn't try hard enough.
An eye for an eye leaves the entire world blind.
I never compete against the competition; the only one to compete against is myself, because one day I will beat the competition and then who will I compete against?
Time doesn't wait for anyone. Don't wait for it to fall on your lap; you have to make it happen.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Listen closely to your enemies; they will tell you your faults.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Saying you'll never love again is like saying you'll never smile again. As much as you don't want to do it eventually someone will come along and make you.
Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile. Who in your presence finds that life is worth while. So when you’re lonely remember it’s true; somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
Do not confuse kindness with weakness.
There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.
I fear that one day I will be corrupted and it will come all too easy.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
As a man, you have to die once in order to live.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.
If being sane is thinking there’s something wrong with being different, I’d rather be completely fucking mental.
If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
If I should die tomorrow I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do, you can't expect more from life.
Don't take away my hope, because my hope is what keeps me going.
How do you ask a man, to be the last man to die for a mistake?
This president has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment — and judgment is what we look for in a president of the United States of America.
You must secure your own success.
It's not the odds that matter in life, the only thing that matters is that we tried.
A Winner is the man with the most intensity, whoever wants it the most. Everyone else is left with sloppy seconds.
I live life as myself, if on the Day of Judgment I am guilty... I will pay without regret.
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self- confidence.
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best of friends.
Intelligence is not a privilege for any one man; it’s a gift to be used for the betterment of mankind.
Life isn't worth living, if you don't get a few scars along the way.
The greatest leap of faith taken by any man or women is having the courage to believe in yourself when no one else will.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
People have more then one facet; people are not all monochromatic they have different aspects to them.
Evil pervades certain areas and comes to each of us in an individual way, in a way that it's going to best ensnare us.
Our enemies usually lack the false charity to deny our sins. No wonder we are called to love them.
Do not give anything holy to the dogs, nor throw pearls in front of swine lest they trample them with their feet and turn on you and tear you apart.
Never feel sorry for yourself. Remember, if you are training hard, he may be training twice as hard.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
We spend so much time trying to know others, when we really don't even know ourselves.
We don't hit any home runs or score any touchdowns or three pointers. We battle
our minds and bodies to achieve the impossible.
I relish in those long stares of admiration.
We stand alone in the circle and lean on no one. We will be judged by our work over a period of years, not one single act.
We don't have to score on every play. We don't have to win every fight. But we must never let ourselves become defeated.
Be proud of who you are and embrace solitude. It will put you on the path to total focus.
Lead by example. Never become someone you aren’t proud of.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.
The will to win can be so great that you lose sight of what got you there in the first place... patience, persistence and perseverance.
Love is never lost, it only changes shape.
Evil prevails when honest men fail to act.
Life takes a lot of things but above all else it takes ambition and the will to succeed.
We hold the fate of the world in our hands.
Peace should not be a dream, it should be a reality.
Dare not neglect the children; as they are our future.
Business is built on ego, vanity and self-satisfaction. It is total crap to pretend it's not.
Holiness is in right action, courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness.
You forget; you're dealing with a clinical observer of the human carnival.
The world is full of half truths.
Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another.
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that none had better speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
History is always written by the victors and whoever controls the writing of history books controls the past.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Valor without expertise is suicide.
Innocence can be corrupted.
Adversity doesn’t build character, it unveils it.
You can learn more about a man in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Temptation mustn’t corrupt glory.
Ambition is man's greatest temptation whether it leads to success or failure.
Kissing is a lot like dancing, you're only as good as your partner.
The avoidance of pain leads to an empty life.
I don't ever want to act my age.
Victory doesn't come cheap.
If you want it, go and get it.
If you are strong, your strength will speak for itself.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.