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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each day, I am healthier, younger,
stronger, more comfortable,
and more joyful than the day before.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
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