Motivational Quotes - Page 94

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.