Quotes on Motivational

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.