Motivational Quotes - Page 233

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.