Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim RohnYou have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor SwiftI just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.
Keanu ReevesYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard ShawThere is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.
Jocko WillinkYou will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
John C. MaxwellI had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius CaesarI never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas JeffersonInstead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
ConfuciusWhat I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
Lady GagaWhen I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard ShawThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David ThoreauEvery action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Leonardo da VinciSo long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch SpinozaThings are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan WattsBelieve me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.
Tom BradyI sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam SandlerAmbition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar WildeYou might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
Conor McGregorI think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.
Tom BradyWhen your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
John C. MaxwellOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
Warren BuffettI’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret ThatcherIf you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
Jordan PetersonI’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo CoelhoThis guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.
Mr. TEvery man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham LincolnBefore you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
ChanakyaBe a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.
DJ KhaledHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinIt takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.
Jimmy BuffettSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhat one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLaziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne FrankThe fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne DyerDon’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘
Maya AngelouThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillAlas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
Charles SpurgeonI’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Dwayne JohnsonLet each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas CarlyleWe can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!
Russell M. NelsonHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin FranklinIf you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.
Paul AusterAnger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.
Terry PratchettWhat really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.
Mark ZuckerbergTo go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
ConfuciusThe great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis BaconMy drive is other people’s success.
Kevin HartBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenMy mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
Alice MunroI know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Dolly PartonYes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice WalkerBe faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother TeresaDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
Golda MeirUnder the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.
Noam ChomskyI’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.
Richard BransonSometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell