Robert Heller Quotes

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.