Motivational Quotes - Page 137

Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.

I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Live in your hopes and not in your fears.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.