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“Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.”

Mind Body Science Winning Battle

Book:Human Happiness

Source: Human Happiness

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.”

Ifs Giving Mind Firsts Heart War Body Passion Winning Loses Battle Objectives

Author:Greg Plitt

“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”

Mean Play Body Joy Winning Individual Sports Knowing Pieces Discipline Training Train Various Efficient Harsh Relaxation Compulsion

Author:Jacques Ellul

“I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.”

Way Body Winning Enjoy Proud Complicated Trophies Complicated Things

Author:Demetri Martin

“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.”

Humans Body Hands Winning Human Beings Brain Wonderful Evolution Gun Electric Tickets Elephants Clay Lottery Razors One Direction Pigeons Wireless Hares Adaptable

Author:Beryl Markham

“in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.”

Thinking Body Earth Fighting Winning Stars Crowds Score Los Angeles Mold Get Ahead

Book:Flash Fire

Source: Flash Fire