Jesse Owens: The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within…
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at.
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- From the book Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man, 1970, as quoted
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- Keith Craft quoted this in Launch.
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- You cannot always decide what will happen to you, but you can always define what happens IN you. How you define what has happened to you and in you, will decide what happens because of you.
- Your rhythm of life is your way of life. Create a better rhythm and you create a better life.
- When you lead yourself, you create a path through you that becomes a trail for others to follow.
- You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.