C Quotes
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“Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
“Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank!”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
“Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.”
“Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.”
“Champions know the emotions you want to feel and help you feel them by remaining genuine to a noble intention.”
“Champions make their own luck.”
“Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.”
“Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better”
“Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Champions of freedom are champions of truth.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism”
Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.”
“Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.”
“Champions take responsibility.”
“Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.”
“Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.”
“Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.”
“Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.”
“Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles”
Source: Think Like a Champion: A Guide to Championship Performance for Student-Athletes
“Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.”
“Chan is drawn to his coauthor because he says they have, "different gifts but similar convictions".”
Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“Chan shook his head. 'Impossible in Rear Bay at Boston,' he said, 'but here at moonly crossroads of Pacific, not so much so. Twenty-five years of my life are consumed in Hawaii, and I have many times been witness when the impossible roused itself and occurred.”
Source: The House Without a Key
“Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“Chance accomplishes what human obstinacy would never allow.”
Source: The Life of Greece
“Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.”
Source: The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan
“Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."”
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
“Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.”
Source: A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry
“Chance, and Fate, are always there, ready to take a hand; and Chance is one thing in life no one can make provision for." - The fat man, Hermes Diaktoros, Pg. 80”
Source: The Messenger of Athens
“Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.”
“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”
“Chance does not exist. Either the universe obeys objective laws or it is of the order of will. But not of a will like our own: an inhuman will, in which all beings, minerals, animals, stars and elements are endowed with effective determination. Where the effect is an added extra, regardless of the cause, where the event is an added extra, regardless of history - chance being merely the intersection of all these wills. A universe consisting of antagonistic impulses, in which everything is lucky or ill-fated - isn't that more uplifting than the mere preoccupation with causes and consequences?
The downplaying of reality is a philosophical intuition and there is, therefore, nothing 'negationist' about it. The virtual, in its project of liquidating the real technically, is truly negationist.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.”
“Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!”
“Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.”
Source: Recollections
“Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.”
“Chance dug deep into the dirt, his front end rising like a speed boat accelerating through water. I grabbed the saddle horn, surprised by his enthusiasm, but I was just as anxious to run as he was. I gave him the reins to go.”
Source: Showdown
“Chance encounters - seeming coincidences of place and time - were fickle. Sometimes such encounters embodied a chemistry and mind of their own, resulting in relationships the were momentous. And sometimes those encounters had as much energy as a speck of inconsequential dust, meant to be overlooked and immediately forgotten.”
Source: We Came Here to Shine
“Chance encounters, the desire to watch, a visit from an unexpected stranger -- all of these things fall within a realm of normalcy. There is always a moment in stories like these, a fork in the road, when you wonder which path will be chosen. Will it end quietly, without incident, or will it move on to the next level? Here lies the difference between reality and imagination.”
Source: White
“Chance favors only those who court her.”
“Chance favors the connected mind.”
Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
“Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.”
“Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'”
“Chance favors those in motion.”
“Chance favors those who are prepared.”
“Chance favours a prepared mind.”
“Chance favours the trained mind.”
“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”