Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship.

My life is like driving down a road. I occasionally glance in the rearview mirror, but I'm not focused on the past or looking back anymore.

The bosses at Newcastle basically decided they didn't want me. Ultimately, there isn't anything you can do about that. The only thing you can do is move on. But I don't think I've anything to prove.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Life moves on and so should we

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.