Motivational Quotes - Page 47

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.