Motivation Quotes - Page 39

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.