O. J. Simpson Quotes

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, 'These are my goals. I need you to get me here.' I don't need any excuses. I won't make any excuses. I'm over making excuses.

I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.

I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every single day.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

In order to do something you must be something.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.