Motivation Quotes - Page 58

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

These are the times that try men's souls.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.