Twyla Tharp Quotes

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.

I think every player hits a little bit of doubt. But if you are strong, you are supposed to be strong mentally because that's our job and you know what you can do. So you are like, 'A'ight cool, I'ma be all right. I'm going to figure this out.'

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

You just try to make the best decisions you can. You just take life as it comes to you and do your best.

You've got to teach yourself you can do your job no matter what happens.

I have plenty of good people around me I can talk to and for me it's the man in the mirror that gives the answers if I have hard times or if I doubt.

A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. You know what you've done and what you've been through to get to where you are.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Successful people reject rejection.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.