George Eliot Quotes

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

I don't know what drives me.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

My improvements, my fights and the competition is going to get better. I'm going to be ready for it.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

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.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.

Dreams grow if you grow.

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

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

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 it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.

One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow.

I think you should always push yourself to want to grow and learn more and be inspired and develop.