Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (14 page)

Vince Lombardi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again."
Vince Lombardi

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result."
Vince Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."
Vince Lombardi

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures."
Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose."
Vince Lombardi

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life."

Anonymous

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

Richard Bach

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?"

Ivern Ball

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work."

William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it."

Steffi Graf

"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."

Alfred Hitchcock

"The art of winning in business is in working hard, not taking things too seriously."

Elbert Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning."

Robert Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."

Vince Lombardi

"Winners are naturally bullish."

Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."

Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final."

Pete Sampras

"There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
J. Paul Getty

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Pierre Corneille

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Anonymous

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

Napoleon Hill

44 Inspirational Quotes

"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Desiderius Erasmus

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you."
Rob Gilbert

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

Stephen R. Covey

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Benjamin Franklin

"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."

Juliene Berk

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Vince Lombardi

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

Charles Dickens

"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away."

Kenich Ohmae

"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

Indian Proverb

"As a twig is bent the tree inclines."

Virgil

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Tryon Edwards

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry Adams

"A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits."

Anonymous

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

Anonymous

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

Anonymous

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
Bruce Barton

"1. Be Proactive.
2. Begin with the end in mind.
3. Put first things first.
4. Think win win.
5. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw."
Stephen R. Covey

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

"All habits gather by unseen degrees
,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

John Dryden

"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."

Tyron Edwards

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!"
L.G. Elliott

"Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn."
J. Todd Ferrier

"Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis."
Jane Fonda

"We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement."
Frank B. Gilberth

"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck."

Grenville Kleiser

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."

William
Somerset
Maugham

"Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes."
Hannah More

"Habits change into character."
Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"A large part of virtue consists in good habits."
Barbara Paley

"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
Plutarch

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare

"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character."
Edward O. Sisson

"The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur."
Edward O. Sisson

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."

Publilius Syrus

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."
Mark Twain

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."
Mark Twain

"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive."

John Cassavetes

"Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation."

Henri Bergson

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it."

Rene Descartes

246 Inspirational Quotes

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
Christopher Morley

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
David Ben