Stay inspired!

Just thought I would share one of my favourite quotes with you all!

If you don’t like it keep that to yourself, this thread is a happy place! :slight_smile:

“You decide if you are going to succeed or fail. Luck does not come into it.
The decision process goes by many names - creative visulisation, neuro-linguistic programming, the power of positive thinking, self hypnosis - but it all comes back to the same thing.
If you tell yourself you are going to do something well, and you tell yourself untill you can actually see yourself doing it well, then you will. BUT if you picture yourself lumbering towards the cold sweat of failure, then success is an impossibility.
Believe in yourself.
Be your own greatest ally.
Do not let negative thoughts into your mind.
There will be enough people in your life who will be only too eager to underestimate you, to denigrate you, to put you down.
Never do it to yourself.”

Or to succinctly put it

“The only person who can tell you that you can’t suceed is yourself… and you don’t have to listen”
-[I]Dean Kernazes[/I]-

Peace.

DT.

Played DT!

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Straight from my website

  1. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. –Unknown

  2. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. – Thomas B Macaulay

  4. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – James D. Miles

  5. Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking. – Unknown

  6. Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein.

  7. Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Hubbard

  8. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character – Albert Einstein

  9. Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have – Unknown

  10. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power – Abraham Lincoln

  11. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

  12. Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. – Stephen Covey

  13. Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. – Jim Rohn

  14. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! – Theodore Roosevelt

  15. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden

  16. How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

  17. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

  18. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  19. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  20. The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith

Great quotes from great characters! =D

We need to keep this going!

If anyone knows a great or inspiring quote then don’t hesitate to add it.
If you can relate it to forex trading than all the better!

I follow this thought:

[I]“Dreams will determine, what you want in life
Action will determine what you get in life”. [/I]

Here’s a similar one by T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”




Bruce Lee is one of my biggest inspirations. His philosophies have helped me through some tough times especially in trading. Back in the day when i wanted to give up. My mum told me you’ve come this far may as well keep going. All i saw was a little progress each week.

Just remember if your seeing progress each week. You will get here. Just don’t give up. There is no short cut to any place worth going. You just got to want it as bad as you want to breathe.


Im not religious but i am a little spiritual. I think having faith is very important in my life. It keeps me going. If you have something to get you through tough times you will get very far.

I read this today and it got me thinking:

TAKE TIME TO READ. It’s worth reading it. Trust me :slight_smile:

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.


Phenomenal post, thank you Daniel!

Agreed! :35:

love this quote:
[B][U]Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.[/U][/B] -Vince Lombardi

Hope u guys like it too!

This is for all other female traders here, enjoy!


Fantastic thread!

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. "
Robert Louis Stevenson

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu