Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 100

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
 Tom Petty
I think confidence is very important, as well as a positive attitude; you should never give up; just maintain a positive mentality whenever you perform; you should go for it.
 Jasmine Trias
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.
 Edgar Snow
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
 Banana Yoshimoto
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
 Hugh Prather
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
 Tacitus
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
 James M. Barrie
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
 B. C. Forbes
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
 Jane Roberts
The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
 Aron Nimzowitsch
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.
 Dick Van Dyke
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
 Alec Guinness
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.