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.
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.
- Topic: Failure, Motivation, Pain
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.