Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

I do not pay any heed to the negative thoughts, I just go with the plan my team gives me.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

As a quarterback, you always believe in yourself. You always know you can do things.

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

What I've always done is be positive and do what I do.

I always try to think positive and move forward.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.