Motivational Quotes
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Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
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Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
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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.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
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In a weird way, hockey is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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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.
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I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
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What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
