Strength means nothing if it doesn't set you free. 
Muscles mean nothing if not used to lift up others.
- Dr. Jack Barnathan 

J'ai vu un ange dans le marbre et j'ai ciselé jusqu'à l'en libérer.
I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.    Michelangelo 

There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

"Le coeur a les raisons la raison ne sait dont rien. Pascal

The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of." 

 

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."  

Goethe  

"God grants liberty only to those who live it, 
and are always ready to guard and defend it.

-Daniel Webster  

“Find Inspiration everywhere - rediscover your strength every day.” 
- Dr. Jack Barnathan 

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God talking to mans soul.  Music is the language of God.  We musicians are as close to God as man can be.  We hear his voice.  We read his lips.  We give birth to the children of God who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.  And if we’re not that, we’re nothing.

Ludwig Von Beethoven 

 
You become what you think about all day long.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where Liberty dwells, there is my country

-Benjamin Franklin (1783) 
 
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces
toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is
strength undefeatable.” 
-Helen Keller 
 
  “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” 
-Albert Einstein
 
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” 
-Victor Hugo 
 
 “Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is
constantly and intelligently replenished.” 
-The Buddha 
 
 “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak,
words will be of no help.” 
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive 
-Robert Thurman

“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide “I must tell the Pope about it”
And then I wake up completely and remember –

I am the Pope!”

- Pope John XXIII

When you do something,

you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

-Shunryu Suzuki

“My mother taught me very early

to believe I could achieve any

accomplishment.

The first was to walk without braces.”

Wilma Rudolph

Four time Olympic Gold Medalist

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.   

-Theodore Roosevelt

The person who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in their every action.

- Samurai Maxim

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put something behind. He will pass an invisible boundary. New, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him or, the old law will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings." 

Henry David Thoreau 

Aggressive fighting for what is right is the noblest sport the world affords.

-Theodore Roosevelt

If they only knew how hard I worked

it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

The world has the habit of making room for the man or woman whose words and actions show that he or she knows where they are going.

- Napoleon Hill

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

-Michelangelo’s Prayer

 

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body.

- Henry David Thoreau

 

Every calling is great

when greatly pursued.” 

-Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

-Thomas Paine 

 

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw 

 

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.

- Jacob Riis 

 

Go for God.  Our goal is God.  Nothing short of that goal will bring us joy.  When you go for God, all the other trivial things will fall away.

- Marianne Williamson 

 

Eliminate something superfluous from your life.

Break a habit.

Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last.

- Piero Ferrucci 

 

“He did each thing as if he did nothing else.”

-Charles Dickens 

 

The important thing in the games is not to win but to take part.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. 

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

To spread these precepts is to build up a stronger and more valiant and above all more scrupulous and more generous humanity.

-Baron De Coupertin

Founder of the Modern Olympics  

  

“All great and extraordinary actions come from the heart”

Theodore Roosevelt 

The Strenuous Life, 1899

  

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.  That is the purpose and nature of miracles.

They may seem very wonderful to the people who witness them,

And very simple to those who perform them.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“I have never seen anything without seeing God therein,” said one Sufi to another. 
Said the other, “I have never seen anything but God.” 

-Sufi Mondo  

                                                             

“Get action; do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time;

create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action!”

-Theodore Roosevelt

  

The Buddha was asked,

“are you God?”

“No, he answered.”

Well, then, what are you?”

“Awake,” said the Buddha.

Earth’s crammed with heaven

And every common bush afire with God:

But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning   

 

Courage is what it takes 
to stand up and speak;

courage is also what it takes

to sit down and listen.

-Sir Winston Churchill

 
From the glow of enthusiasm 
I let the melody escape.

I pursue it.  Breathless I catch up with it.

It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into

a chaos of diverse emotions.

I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight…

I multiply it by modulations,

And at last I triumph in the first theme.

There is the whole symphony.

-Ludwig Van Beethoven

  

Lots of folks confuse

bad management with

Destiny.

-Elbert Hubbard 

 

I have no parents; I make heaven and earth my parents. 

I have no divine power; I make honesty my power.

I have no means; I make submission my means.

I have no magic power; I make inward strength my magic.

I have no friends; I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy; I make incautiousness my enemy.

I have no armor; I make goodwill and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle; I make

immovable Mind my castle.

-The Samurai’s Zen Creed   

 

The greatest prayer

is

patience.

-The Buddha

  

“By working faithfully eight hours per day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.”

-Robert Frost  

Once you have tasted flight,

you will forever walk the earth

with your eyes turned skyward,

for there you have been, and there

you will always long to return. 

-Leonardo da Vinci  

 

 ‘Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”

-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.”

-The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957  

 

“But what…is it good for?”

-Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, Commenting on the Microchip.  

 

“This ‘Telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us.”

-Western Union Internal Memo, 1876  

 

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?!
-David Sarnoff’’s associates I response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920’s

  

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”

-H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 

 

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

-Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962  

 

“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible”

-Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895 

 

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment.  The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.”

-Spencer Silver on the work that led to the 3M “Post-it” Pads.  

 

“So we went to Atari and said, “Hey, we’ve got this amazint thing, even build with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?  Or we’ll give it to you.  So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you.  You haven’t got through college yet.”  

-Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempt to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.

  

“You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles?  It can’t be done.  It’s just a fact of life.  You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training.”

-Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the ‘unsolvable’ problem by inventing Nautilus  

 

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899