Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.
A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds ‘body feel’ and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.
To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.
Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
A man must constantly exceed his level.
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.