Michael Jordan Success Quotes
“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Self Confidence Quotes
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
-W.C. Fields
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Author Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
Leadership Quotes
Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
-Gene Mauch
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
-Elaine Agather
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
-Tom Peters
True Happiness Quotes
Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a heart full of love.
-Unknown
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
- Ezra Taft Benson
If I feel depressed, I go to work. Work is always an antidote to depression.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is the best medicine.
-Unknown
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
-Ben Franklin
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
-C.P.Snow
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
-Unknown
Quotes About Winning
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
-Diane Feinstein
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes
A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.
- Mario Puzo
New Beginnings Quotes
What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
-Unknown
Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
-Marsha Petrie Sue
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
-Albert Camus
All glory comes from daring to begin.
-Eugene F. Ware
Stress Quotes
“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles … are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”
William Matthews
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
Hans Selye
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.”
Andrew Denton
“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what’?”
Sydney Harris
Acceptance Quotes
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
- Wayne Dyer
For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadworth Longfellow
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
- Fulton Oursler
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is – and rise above it.
– Michael Korda
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
– Denis De Rougamont
Discipline Quotes
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
-Jim Rohn
If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
-William Feather
If you put off everything until you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.
-Norman Vincent Peale
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
-Harry Truman
Fitness Quotes
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health.
The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
