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You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.
Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.
I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.
We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.
Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.