Motivation Quotes - Page 106

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.