Motivational Quotes - Page 116

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Better to wear out than rust out.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

You get there by realizing you are already there.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.

Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.