Motivational Quotes - Page 145

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Whatever you're thinking about, you will attract.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.

The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.