Motivation Quotes - Page 90

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

To finish first, you must first finish.

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Whatever you believe, you become.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.