Motivational Quotes - Page 91

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Step by step and the thing is done.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.