Garth Stein Quotes

For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down... if you wish to be up then get up.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm not going away - and I'm going to keep on talking until things start changing.

Nobody is powerless.

A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

There is nothing that anyone can stop you from doing if you really want.

It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Nothing happens until you decide.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.