Herb Elliott Quotes

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

Every part of my game has room to improve, and that's a challenge that I'm willing to accept. That's a challenge I will continue to get better at.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

I want somebody to push me and grill me and extract a performance out of me which nobody expects.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

Training should be tough, it should challenge you, because that's how you improve.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.