No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore RooseveltThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Will RogersSome men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore RooseveltIf you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. NixonI was a fighting machine with a will of iron.
Jurgen KloppThe dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
John C. MaxwellLife loves the liver of it.
Maya AngelouIt isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad AliHe not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob DylanThe more you know the less you need to say.
Jim RohnNobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint EastwoodTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainThe way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
SocratesIt is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel JohnsonI played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny YoungmanPrayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma GandhiThe resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne WestwoodI heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?
Taylor SwiftI know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
Michelle ObamaThere is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Eckhart TolleA lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill ShanklyA Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIn the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William JamesVirtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhat kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston ChurchillI was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
Jocko WillinkIf you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.
Nipsey HussleBefore 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.
ChanakyaThe greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
Robert KiyosakiHere’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
Kamala HarrisNever was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo MachiavelliFind people who will make you better.
Michelle ObamaReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. ForbesWe don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Nipsey HussleIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. RockefellerSimply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne DyerControl your own destiny! Control your own destiny!
Stephen CurryIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDeficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne DyerI was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
Dwayne JohnsonThe people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Abraham LincolnTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalKey is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!
DJ KhaledI do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘
Virat KohliMarines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.
Jim MattisMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegieI’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.
Karl LagerfeldIf selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Joyce MeyerLife is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.
Pope FrancisDave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.
George BestA word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. MaxwellI have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
LeBron JamesWhen I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor SwiftIf you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
Robert KiyosakiNever find fault with the absent.
Alexander PopeGovernment can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Richard M. NixonNo matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
Lou HoltzYou must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon