Motivation Quotes - Page 64

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.