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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. (Suzuki Shunryu)
The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. (Suzuki Shunryu)
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. (Suzuki Shunryu)
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? (Suzuki Shunryu)
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. (Suzuki Shunryu)
What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Look at things... as they can be. (Suzuki Shunryu)
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite (Suzuki Shunryu)
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected. (Suzuki Shunryu)
No one knows what he can do till he tries. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? (Suzuki Shunryu)
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle. (Suzuki Shunryu)
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord. (Suzuki Shunryu)
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be. (Suzuki Shunryu)
You never know what you can do until you try. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. (Suzuki Shunryu)
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. (Suzuki Shunryu)
If they're giving a heavy sales pitch, I'm suspicious of them. Are they trying to sell a product or trying to help you be successful? (Suzuki Shunryu)
“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.” (Suzuki Shunryu)
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