Quotes on Positive

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

If the work is high and far, _x000D_ You must not only aim aright, _x000D_ But draw the bow with all your might.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.