Motivational Quotes - Page 246

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.

Make today worth remembering.

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

I'm a motivational speaker.