Motivation Quotes - Page 73

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

Accuracy builds credibility.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.