Motivational Quotes - Page 253

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

True or true? Yes or yes?

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.