Motivational Quotes - Page 269

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

Were born to be players, not pawns.

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

The future belongs to him that does and dares.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Go work until you can get the job you that want to have. And I'm really lucky to get to work with a lot of entrepreneurs that are building some of the coolest, new stuff in the world and these guys and girls work really hard and they put in the hours and they're generous and care about other people and it's what led to their success.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.