Quotes on Motivational

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.