Pinnacle Performance's Favourite Quotes

 

This page will be updated regularly and PINNACLE PERFORMANCE's Favourite Quotes will be here from a range of different authors on a whole range of topics. David believes there is nothing like a good quote so enjoy! If you have any good quotes you would like to share then contact us.

'A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimsit sees the opportunity in every difficulty.' - Winston Churchill
 
'If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.' - Lou Holtz
 
'Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.' -General Patton
 
'Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it & staying with that plan.' -Tom Landry
 
'The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.' -Brian Sipe
 
'Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.' -Phil Jackson
 
'On the verge of defeat often victory waits for the few with faith and determination' - Unknown
 
'The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.' -Pierre de Coubertin
 
'In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They are going to find you anyway.' -Bear Bryant
 
'Great acts are made up of small deeds.' - Lao Tzu
 
'Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.' - Mark Twain
 
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.' - W. Churchill
 
'If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.' -Vince Lombardi
 
'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.' - Mahatma Gandhi
 
'No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave.' -Calvin Coolidge
 
'Confidence is contagious.' - Vince Lombardi
 
'Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.' - Lao Tzu
 
'Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.' -Lou Holtz
 
'There is no substitute for hard work.' - Thomas Edison
 
'The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.' - Abraham Lincoln
 
'Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.' - Peter Drucker
 
'Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.' - Zig Ziglar
 
'What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
'I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.' - Larry Bird
 
'Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.' - Tony Robbins
 
'Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.' - John Wooden
 
'Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.' - Dalai Lama
 
'Self-evaluation is more valuable than self-condemnation.' -  Zig Ziglar
 
 
Success
 

'Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.' Aldous Huxley  

 

'Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.' - Winston Churchill

 
 
'The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary' - Vince Lombardi
'Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time' - A.H. Glasow
 
 
'I've failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed.' -Michael Jordan
 
 
'Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.' - Al Bernstein

 

'When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be' - Lao Tzu

 

'Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.' - Bobby Knight
 

'Pain exists on a mountain, Pain exists in the desert, Pain exists everywhere, Pain is beaten in the mind' - Royal Marines.

 

'Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.' - Paulo Coelho
 
'Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.' - Wangari Maathai
 
'Success isn't permanent & failure isn't fatal.' - Mike Ditka
 
'Successful people are simply those with successful habits.' - Brian Tracy
 
 

Experience

 

'A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for.' - William Shedd
 

'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.' - Aristotle

 
 
Education
 
'You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.' - Galileo
 
'Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.' - William Butler Yeats
 
'Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.' - Benjamin Franklin
 
'Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.' - Albert Einstein
 
'Fear is a priceless education.' - Lance Armstrong
 
 
Leadership
 
'The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.' -Vince Lombardi
 
'Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.' - Jack Welch
 
'The real leader has no need to lead; he is content to point the way.' - Henry Miller
 
'Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.' - Euripides
 
'The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.' - Vince Lombardi
 
'Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.' - John Maxwell