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In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.
When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.
At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.
Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.