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Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.
Sep 28, 2025
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.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Action will delineate and define you.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Well done is better than well said.