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These
are some of my favorite quotations that I use in my workshops.
They beautifully illustrate much of the philosophy of my golf
and life. I hope you find them as meaningful as I do.
Purpose
"The
only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a
purpose."
-
John Mason Brown
"Success,
like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue. And it only
does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself."
-
Victor Frankl
“He
who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.” -
Nietzsche
"Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony."
-
Mahatma Gandhi
Change
and Commitment
"It
is to my advantage to make a commitment and keep it, because
it protects me from making reckless decisions when I am discouraged."
-
Bill Riedler
"One
reason we have resistance to change is that we focus on what
we have to give up rather than on what we have to gain." -
Ken Blanchard
"To
go forward, you have to leave something behind."
- Steve Jobs
"You
must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Everybody
thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing
himself."
-
Leo Tolstoy
Self-Criticism
and Perfection
"Perfectionism
is a mental straight jacket." -
Alan Loy McGinnis
"Perfectionism
is slow death." -
Hugh Prather
"If
you make every game a life’s or death proposition you’re going
to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot!" -
Dean Smith
"Nobody
can make you feel inferior without your permission." -
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Appreciate
yourself for who you are instead of berating yourself for
who you are not."
- Melissa Whitmire
"When
there is judgment, there is no room for love." -
Mother Teresa
"Don't
let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
Thought
and Self Fulfilling Prophecies
"We
become what we think about." -
Earl Nightingale
"One
meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."
- French Proverb
"We
attract what we fear!"
- Anonymous
"All
that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the
direct result of his own thoughts." -
James Allen
"Focus
or vision is the magic wand of creating your heart’s desire."
- Sonja Choquette
"Dream
lofty dreams and as you dream, so shall you become… Dreams
are the seedlings of reality."
- James Allen
"Act
as though it were impossible to fail." -
Dorothea Brand
"Never
doubt, there comes a moment when you begin to believe that
virtually anything is possible, that nothing is too good to
be true." - Anonymous
On
Taking Action
"Try,
there is no try. Only do or do not do." -
Yoda
"One
hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in."
- Wayne Gretzky
"A
goal not committed to paper is no goal at all."
- Jeff Herring
"If
you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have
to find the courage to live it." -
John Irving
"It
does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
"Plodding
wins the race."
- Aesop
"Nothing
is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." -
Henry Ford
"Success
is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set
yourself on fire!"
- Reggie Leach
"The
race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep on
running." - Anonymous
Enjoying
the Journey
"After
climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many
more hills to climb."
- Nelson Mandela
"There
is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana
"We
use the word IF to keep ourselves from being responsible for
taking charge of our own happiness in the present moment."
- Melissa Whitmire
"We
don’t get 100% satisfaction from the moment because we are
focused on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow….forgetting
that WE are the rainbow!" -
Traci Riedler
"It
is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day
basis."
- Margaret Bonnano
"Take
success, rub it all over your body and then roll in it." -
Chuck Hogan
"When
we dwell on what was, we are robbed of what is, and lose what
can be."
- M. Whitmire
Miscellaneous
"What
I fear most about stress is not that it kills, but that it
prevents one from savoring life."
- Jean-Louis Seven-Schreiber
"He
that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a
nail." - Abraham
Maslow
"Let
no one come to you without leaving better and happier." -
Mother Teresa
"Golf
is the most overtaught and least learned human behavior. If
they taught sex the way they taught golf, the race would have
died out years ago." -
Jim Murray
"Laughter
is Inner Jogging." -
Norman Cousins
"The
Door to Happiness Opens Outward." -
Unknown
"Three
things in human life are important: The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." -
Henry James
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