Motivational Quotations | Page 10

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

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.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

The best director is the one you don't see.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

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.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

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.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

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.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.