Motivational Quotes - Page 157

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Take a Deep Breath & Focus on What's Really Important.

If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?