Motivational Quotes - Page 139

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward.

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.