Steve Backley Quotes

Success is a decision, not a gift.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Act like a champion, and then become one.

It is action that creates motivation.

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you.

Tell me your thinking, and I'll tell you what your life looks like.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.

Compete like you cannot fail.

They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.

If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.

Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes.

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

If not now, when?