Best 15461 quotes in «motivational quotes» category

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Inches make a champion.

Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

I never think about losing.

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achieved. If I achieve, than I can proudly say I did my job well.

I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don't have to be sparing with it!

In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.