Motivation Quotes - Page 50

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.