Authors — Quotes

Steve Backley Quotes: 54

Success is a decision, not a gift.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Compete like you cannot fail.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Act like a champion, and then become one.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If not now, when?
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
See it first in your mind, then become it.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
To think is good. To obsess is bad.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is action that creates motivation.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
If not you, who?
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
See it, feel it, trust it!
The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success