Best 15461 quotes in «motivational quotes» category

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.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

One man cannot make a team.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

One man with courage is a majority.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.

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.

One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity.  When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are.  When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.