It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
God doesn't make junk.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
There is time for everything.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Here's Johnny !
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Must you flirt ?
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Open the pod bay doors,
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Love is something eternal.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.