🐅Inspiration. After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
— Bruce Lee
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”
— Bruce Lee
“Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”
— Marquise du Deffand
“In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”
— Philip Gilbert Hamilton
“Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.” – Menander
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”
— Taoist Proverb
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”
— Jean Sibelius
“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
– Thales
“The only journey is the journey within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
— Bruce Lee
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
– Plato
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
— Bruce Lee
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.”
– Talmud
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.”
— Samuel Johnson
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
— Bruce Lee
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
— George Burns
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win — if you don’t you won’t.”
— Bruce Jenner
“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.”
— Bruce Lee “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
– Michelangelo
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
— Marcel Pagnol
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
— Bruce Lee
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
— Dennis Waitley
“Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements.”
— Mark Victor Hansen
“’What is’ is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.”
— Bruce Lee
“Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about.”
— Wayne Dyer
“When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
— Sun Tzu
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
— Hecato
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