Motivational Quotes - Page 176

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.