- motivational thread -

[sever]

O colectie de'a mea

If you sit down and always consider all the possibilities, if you waste your time worrying what others will think, if you ponder whether or not you are good enough, then you never will be.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, <Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything>,
and an optimist who says, <Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway>. Either way, nothing happens.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we are really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn't fail?

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal;
while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow u beacuse they are looking for ideas.

To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You HAVE to. I don't feel that anymore.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

[Dioscuri]

Invictus - William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

[sever]

more

“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but too low and we reach it”
Michelangelo

“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde

The Prophet Mohammed said to Abu Dharr (one of his companions):

O Aba Dharr, take advantage of five things before five other things [take advantage of you]:

1. Your youth before your old age
2. Your health before your sickness
3. Your wealth before your poverty
4. Your free time before your being busy
5. And your life before your death

[sever]

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."- Norman Augustine

"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference." - Luciano Pavarotti

[sever]

‘Someday’ is the day after you die.
Steve Pavlina

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
Pablo Sarasate (Spanish Violinist)

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch to be sure.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’
Ronnie Shakes

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Kurt Vonnegut

Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some ask what happened.
Casey Stengel


You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

[sever]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8kUTUIveyA]YouTube - Lecture of a Lifetime[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsmzDL61oME]YouTube - Rudy told he just can't do it.[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc]YouTube - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address[/ame]

[sever]

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

[sever]

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?

When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time
To call and say, “Hi”?

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.

Hear the music
Before the song is over.

[Donatello]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6l0w6gVrkQ]YouTube - Slow Dance[/ame]

[ign1te]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq_A8nXMsQ]YouTube - Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen! (ORIGINAL VERSION + ENGLISH SUBTITLES)[/ame]

[sever]

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu

[obs]

Hahahaha, ce ironie, totusi natura munceste de vreo 5 miliarde de ani. Noi traim secunde. Deci mai tragea si Sunt-Tzu la masea...

[sever]

Sun Tzu e ala cu razboiu

[rainbow6]

101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time

[sever]

pt shots sau out of BR

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3S8PRWjeg]YouTube - Brave heart speech[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nItYBbYRtEc]YouTube - 300 movie ending speech[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCARXI0WvGo]YouTube - Rohan Charge (Extended)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpwsKRpKS_M]YouTube - Lord of the rings - Helms deep charge[/ame]


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGUqd_M6Mg]YouTube - Independence Day - Speech By The President (Bill Pullman)[/ame]