Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
BILL BONNERThe real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
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The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
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