Seth Godin Quotes

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Seth Godin

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Real
  • Trying

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Trying
  • College
  • Couple

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Away

• I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Fly

• Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Power

• The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Winning

• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  

  Max Planck
  • Important
  • Die
  • Winning

• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I'm the world number one, so everyone is trying to attack me and trying to speed up.

  

  Chen Long
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

  

  Joel McHale
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

  

  Joe McNally
  • Different
  • Trying

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Difficult
  • Rooms
  • Forgiving

• Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Loses

• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Why
  • Advice
  • Wealth

• We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Up

• Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Successful