Motivation Quotes - Page 99

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

I never think about losing.

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.