The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.