Matt Sydal Quotes

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

Instead of waking up and worrying about your thigh gap, wake up and worry about what you're going to achieve today. What can you do, and how can you give back?

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

I just need to give the best of myself and work on myself.

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.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.