8 Mile Quotes
8 Mile Quote of the day
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.
The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.
The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.
Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams.
Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!
Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.
Let your dreams be as litmitless as the circumference of the entire universe. The police service does not prosecute people who over-dream. Never nail yourself to the narrow cross. Dream big!
In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a step ahead with what is in your hands.
When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.
You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.
Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.
The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!
The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.
No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.
Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.
All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.
He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project
It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.
What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.
Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.
It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering
We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach
Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!
It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that obstacles wear to pull you away from reaching your destination will become slippery!
It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.
Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.
The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.