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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.
Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Think back 5 yrs ago. Think of where you're at today. Think ahead 5 yrs and what you want to accomplish. Be Unstoppable.
You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.
People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows
It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.
For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.
There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
The people who put limits on your abilities, goals, or dreams, may not be the people you want to associate yourself with.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.