“Praise is like sunlight
to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and
grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too
ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we
are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine
of praise.”
“If you want to know how to make people shun you and
laugh at you behind your back and even despise you,
here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk
incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the
other person is talking, don?t wait for him or her to finish:
bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.”
From a book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only
help him to find it within himself.”
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. . .” Rocky Balboa
“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”
–Charles Swindoll
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
And a few from Vince Lombardi…
“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.”
“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.
Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
If you have a strong informed opinion, don?t keep it to yourself. Try and help people and make the world a better place. If you strive to do anything remotely interesting, just expect a small percentage of the population to always find a way to take it personally. F*ck ?em. There are no statues erected to critics. - Tim Ferriss
There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.
True strength comes from the heart not the needle.
My dream is to become the world’s strongest man and my fear is that I may not make it happen. Hugo Giraud
I believe that I am the strongest man how has ever lived. Bill Kaz
I would like to comment on motivation. Most power lifters share some common defects, as a whole for whatever reason, LOVE to punish, beat and torture ourselves beyond the limits of mind and body. It is our spirit that prevails. This defect of intelligence and sensibility pushes us onto the next level, makes us better and stronger. We all have lifted sick and badly hurt, When this subject comes up with normal people and other meatheads, we all have the prideful smile when we talk about lifting with a 100 degree temperature or a torn groin. Cpt Kirk
I am so very proud that this took only four pages to deginerate into a bunch of quotes about beer. Here’s a few more:
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
-Dave Barry
“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
-Winston Churchill
“May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.”
-Old Irish Toast
“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.”
-Homer Simpson
Self-respect is an altogether more valuable and admirable quality than self-esteem, because it is other- and not self-regarding. It is a civil and social, not a narcissistic and solipsistic, quality. Walk down the main streets of any British city and you will see people with excessive self-esteem but no self-respect. They dress shabbily, for example, and in so far as they are concerned to create any impression on others, it is to warn them to treat them with what, in the language of street credibility, is known as “respect”: that is to say, not to challenge their inflated sense of their own importance in any way.
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
Tstud_9 wrote:
"Be moderate in everything, including moderation. "
Horace Porter
But Dave Tate says fuck moderation!!! Let’s see… who’d win in a fight Dave Tate or Horace Porter. HMMMMM[/quote]
But, to be moderate with moderation means to just fucking do it when necessary. Horace knew what was what. Dave is clear about the benefits of deloading…even he gets moderation.
Just sayin’
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
-Ausonius
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
“…we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” Romans 5:3-5
Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, and he stops running when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about ‘how hard it is;’ he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn’t go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
–Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you force me to do violence, I shall be so savage and so cruel, and hurt you so badly that the thought of revenge shall never cross your mind” --Machiavelli
An amateur trains until he gets it right.
The professional trains until he cannot get it wrong.
