Mark Victor Hansen
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Don't think it, ink it.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
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.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
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Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Here's looking at you, kid.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
They're here !
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Never say die.
Believe in yourself.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Let thy words be few.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.