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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.
The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
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.
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.
The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.
I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.
When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.
Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.
Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.
