The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 139
I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.
Willis Earl Beal
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
E. Michael Burke
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Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
Washington Irving
Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.
To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.
Gerard Houllier
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
David Bly
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
Elton John
[Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.
Chris Matthews
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.
Ricky Schroder
Satan can wreak havoc but he cannot claim the victory.
David Jeremiah
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.
Rufus Wainwright
Potentially, the U.S. military has the ability to stop messages from being delivered or can alter commands without ISIS knowing.
Dina Temple-Raston
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing.
Creed Bratton
