Motivational Quotes - Page 203

Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

Life is when awareness hides in the idea of personal experience.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.