George Eliot Quotes

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

Look me in the eye. It’s ok if you’re scared. So am I. But we are scared for different reasons. I am scared of what I won’t become. And you are scared of what I could become. Look at me. I won’t let myself end where I started. I won’t let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage. I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

I just think there's more I can do in this game.

The journey has moulded me into the person I am today. The journey of my mixed martial arts experience has been filled with ups and downs, but through that, I have come out a much better man.

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.

My biggest goal as a player is to reach my full potential.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.

I want to keep getting better.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?