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The following are some of my favorite quotes that I've transcribed from various sources. Enjoy.
"The reason why I told you, you matter is because you'll never have, you'll never be, you'll do... listen to me. You'll never experience life the way you were supposed to experience life until you recognize that you matter. Now it's important for me to let you know that you're powerful beyond measure. Perhaps, I don't know... your daddy wasn't in your life, your mother wasn't in your life. I don't know... you didn't have a mentor, you may have never had anyone look you in your eye, look you in your soul and tell you that not only do you matter but you're powerful. I remember... I remember... sleeping in abandoned buildings. Eating out of garbage cans. I remember... coming home, bringing home C's and D's. Not living up to my full potential. When you do what you've been called to do, what you've been born to do, what you've been birthed to do nobody can do it like you. Nobody can sing the way you sing, nobody can speak the way you speak, nobody can write the way you write, nobody can love the way you love. Do you hear what I'm saying? You're powerful!" - Eric Thomas
"If I have to tell that person I can't go out drinking with him anymore, so be it. Because that's not what I value. Anyone or anything that takes me further away from my dreams has to go. I'm committed to self-development, not self-destruction and ya know any person that is meant to be with me on the journey will choose that higher road with me. Yes, a tougher road but its a much more rewarding one. I want my life to mean something, to be able to look back at my life and say yeah, 'I made some tough decisions but they were the right decisions.' So many people don't get it, they piss their life away every weekend for what? So they can complain about their current circumstances for the rest of the week? Screw that! No chance... I'm in charge of my own life. It's all on me. I take responsibility, I take action, and I get shit done. You never hear me complain about another person or circumstances. The reason why I'm not where I want to be if I don't like where I am time to knuckle down and work harder. I am a perfect reflection of the hard work or lack of work I put in. And luck? That only comes to those who have paid their dues. If I am weak in a certain area it wont be for long because I am committed to being better. I will learn, I will read, I will make it happen, I will find a way. I will work until that weakness is turned into a strength." - Unknown
"The whole time you were thinking the struggle was holding you back, it was actually giving you the tools to become one of the greatest" - Unknown
"If you want to make this your decade you have got to start saying yes to your life. Yes to your dreams, yes to your unfolding future, yes to your potential. Why not?" - Les Brown
"Sometimes I feel like giving up, but then I remember I have a lot of people to prove wrong." - Unknown
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. Do it, do it, do it... You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"The reason why I told you, you matter is because you'll never have, you'll never be, you'll do... listen to me. You'll never experience life the way you were supposed to experience life until you recognize that you matter. Now it's important for me to let you know that you're powerful beyond measure. Perhaps, I don't know... your daddy wasn't in your life, your mother wasn't in your life. I don't know... you didn't have a mentor, you may have never had anyone look you in your eye, look you in your soul and tell you that not only do you matter but you're powerful. I remember... I remember... sleeping in abandoned buildings. Eating out of garbage cans. I remember... coming home, bringing home C's and D's. Not living up to my full potential. When you do what you've been called to do, what you've been born to do, what you've been birthed to do nobody can do it like you. Nobody can sing the way you sing, nobody can speak the way you speak, nobody can write the way you write, nobody can love the way you love. Do you hear what I'm saying? You're powerful!" - Eric Thomas
"If I have to tell that person I can't go out drinking with him anymore, so be it. Because that's not what I value. Anyone or anything that takes me further away from my dreams has to go. I'm committed to self-development, not self-destruction and ya know any person that is meant to be with me on the journey will choose that higher road with me. Yes, a tougher road but its a much more rewarding one. I want my life to mean something, to be able to look back at my life and say yeah, 'I made some tough decisions but they were the right decisions.' So many people don't get it, they piss their life away every weekend for what? So they can complain about their current circumstances for the rest of the week? Screw that! No chance... I'm in charge of my own life. It's all on me. I take responsibility, I take action, and I get shit done. You never hear me complain about another person or circumstances. The reason why I'm not where I want to be if I don't like where I am time to knuckle down and work harder. I am a perfect reflection of the hard work or lack of work I put in. And luck? That only comes to those who have paid their dues. If I am weak in a certain area it wont be for long because I am committed to being better. I will learn, I will read, I will make it happen, I will find a way. I will work until that weakness is turned into a strength." - Unknown
"The whole time you were thinking the struggle was holding you back, it was actually giving you the tools to become one of the greatest" - Unknown
"If you want to make this your decade you have got to start saying yes to your life. Yes to your dreams, yes to your unfolding future, yes to your potential. Why not?" - Les Brown
"Sometimes I feel like giving up, but then I remember I have a lot of people to prove wrong." - Unknown
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. Do it, do it, do it... You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
- PRIMITUS
- BLOG 1 : PATHWAYS
- BEGINNER WORKOUT PROGRAM
- BLOG 2 : LEAVING FOOTPRINTS
- BLOG 3 : THE SPICE OF LIFE
- BLOG 4 : 4 REASONS TO RETHINK FACEBOOK USAGE
- BLOG 5 : MOTIVATION
- BLOG 6 : THE CASE FOR CAFFEINE
- MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES PART 1
- BLOG 7 : FIGHT CLUB
- BLOG 8 : FREE FALLING
- MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES PART 2
- BLOG 9 : BRANCHING OUT
- BLOG 10 : BLAST FROM THE PAST
- BLOG 12 : PATHWAYS PART 2
- MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES PART 3
- BLOG 13 : PATHWAYS PART 3
- BLOG 14 : ARMAMENT
- MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES PART 4
- PERSPECTIVE REDEFINED
- BLOG 15 : BREAK DOWN
- THE COLONEL SANDERS STORY
- BLOG 16 : WRECK
- BLOG 17 : NIGHT VISIONS
- BLOG 18 : CHANGES AHEAD
- BLOG 19 : PATHWAYS PART 4
- MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES PART 5
- BLOG 20 : PATHWAYS PART 5
- 3 MILITARY SKILLS TO LEARN
- BLOG 21 : ROAD TRIP PART 1
- QUOTATION COMPILATION
- BLOG 22 : THOUGHTS