Inspiring Quotes
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It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.
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The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
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It is one thing to be successful on the field, but to be recognized for something off-field is a completely different and inspiring feeling.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.
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It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
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What regresses, never progresses.
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When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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Fear him, whom you hate.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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The stories abounded, both recounting these cross-continental journeys and perhaps inspiring them – how Hellenic Jason gathered his Argonauts together (including Augeas, whose vast stables Herakles would be forced to clean) for adventure and profit, how he stopped off along the Bosphorus and discovered the land of the rising sun before other Greek heroes headed to Asia in search of Helen, Troy and glory. In the Homeric epics we hear of Jason travelling east where he tangles with Medea of Colchis, her aunt Circe and the feisty Amazon tribe. Lured by the promise of gold (early and prodigious metalworking did indeed take place in the region – perhaps sparking the Greek idea that the East was ‘rich in gold’) and then detained by the potions and poisons of Princess Medea, Jason succeeded in penetrating the Caucasus – a land which, in the Greek mind, wept with both peril and promise. It was here that Prometheus was chained to a rock with iron rivets for daring to steal fire from the gods. Archaeology east of Istanbul demonstrates how myth grazes history.
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Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.
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When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
