Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how

You can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day

You become part of what you are around

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

Do not seek “it”, for it will come when least expected. Let go. Don’t seek or run away.

It is not his task to try to lead – that would only make him lose the Way – but to let himself be led.

If he knows how to meet fate with an attitude of acceptance, he is sure to find the right guidance.

One who is possessed by worry not only lacks the poise to solve his own problems, but by his nervousness and irritability creates additional problems for those around him.

I don’t like to wear stuffy clothes and be at places where everyone is trying to impress each other.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

The superior man lets himself be guided; he does not go ahead blindly, but learns from the situation what is demanded of him and then follows.

In ordinary life wu-wei is expressed in “producing and rearing things without taking possession of them” and “doing work but not taking pride in it” – thus the natural “way” stands in complement to all artificial ways such as regulation, ceremonies, etc. This is the reason why the Taoists don’t like formalities and artificialities.

In Buddhism there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you’re tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.