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I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.
as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
Whether you know it or not, you are a role model for somebody. Watch what you say and know that you're responsible for your actions.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.
Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.