Motivational Quotes - Page 131

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

You are what you repeatedly do

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.