As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle...

Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance.

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were...

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

Master thyself, seek to know thy soul.

Don’t kill the Genius in you by doubting your abilities to create impact in the world.

Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.

We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.

Learn who you are before becoming what others want.

The number one element on the list for changing and improving one’s lifestyle is definitely in the area of health for most people. Good health paves the way for even more awesomeness to happen all-the-way-around.

Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

You don’t have to be good at something to be liked.

When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for...

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.

Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning,...

My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren’t others, but ourselves.

Nurture youroriginality, don’t ever bury itaway.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no...

Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don’t let it use you.

Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.

Seeing each choice as a kind of energy can empower us. To say “yes” might feel like a dripping faucet. To say “no” might feel like a playful puppy. In feeling the energy, we get...

I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don’t even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting...

Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or thefear response is triggered and...

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, “This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it.” Often, we’ll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.

Engineer possibility into greatness

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

What are we if we are not disciplined?

Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.

Your “Self” was created in the image and likeness of your creator. How can you believe that your “self” can be improved? Self improvement is contradictory to your creation.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.

The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.

You don’t manifest dreams without taking chances.

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don’t lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul....

Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Excerpt from “The Strength in Knowing”Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

Love is being able to be yourself, with another human being who makes you want to be better than yourself.

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.