Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Les BrownRead
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Interpretation
Your future is shaped by your current mindset and choices.
This quote emphasizes that the potential for success and fulfillment in your life is constrained by the doubts and excuses you entertain today. It encourages you to push past your limitations and take proactive steps toward your goals, suggesting that a positive and determined attitude can significantly influence your future outcomes.
In practice
During a motivational seminar, one could use this quote to inspire attendees to overcome their fears.
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.
If all you're doing is grinding for the man, it's going to burden you. Once you say, 'Hey, I'm grinding for the man, but I'm putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,' you're working for you.
If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
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