Motivational Quotes - Page 121

The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Success is the child of audacity.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'

If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now?

Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.