Motivational Quotes

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

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.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Your best days are still out in front of you

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

All work is empty save when there is love.

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.