Quotes by British Authors - Page 722

Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.
Steve Backley
These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.
Steve Backley
If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.
Steve Backley
Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.
Steve Backley
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
Steve Backley
To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.
Steve Backley
The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
Steve Backley
See it, feel it, trust it!
Steve Backley
Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.
Steve Backley
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
Steve Backley
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
Steve Backley
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
Steve Backley
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
Steve Backley
Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
Steve Backley
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Steve Backley
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
Steve Backley
See it first in your mind, then become it.
Steve Backley
Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.
Steve Backley
To think is good. To obsess is bad.
Steve Backley
Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.
Steve Backley
Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
Steve Backley
They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.
Steve Backley
(Ulrich, 100 year old Bulgarian man): in Solo, by Rana Dasgupta"Ulrich has sometimes wondered whether his life has been a failure. Once he would have looked at all this and said yes. But now he does not know what it means for a life to succeed or fail. How can a dog fail its life, or a tree? A life is just a quantity; and he can no more see failure in it than he can see failure in a pile of earth, or a bucket of water. Failure and success are foreign terms to such blind matter." (p. 160)
Rana Dasgupta
There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?
Steve Backley
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
Steve Backley
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
Steve Backley
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
Steve Backley
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
Steve Backley
Act like a champion, and then become one.
Steve Backley
It is action that creates motivation.
Steve Backley
If not now, when?
Steve Backley
Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.
Steve Backley
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
Steve Backley
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
Steve Backley
Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.
Steve Backley
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
Steve Backley
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
Steve Backley
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
Steve Backley
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
Steve Backley
If not you, who?
Steve Backley
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
Steve Backley
Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
Steve Backley
The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.
Tahir Shah
Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
Tahir Shah
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
Tahir Shah
The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.
Andrew Brown
An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
Anthony Powell
I awoke one morning to find myself famous.
George Gordon Byron
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
Malcolm Gladwell
Failure has its successes.
Brian Howard
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.
Alain de Botton
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
Steve Backley
It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
Steve Backley
You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
Steve Backley
The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
Steve Backley
The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
A.C. Benson
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
Steve Backley
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Alain de Botton
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Charles Dickens
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
Doris Lessing