Nadine Velazquez Quotes

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.

[Referring to Jimmy Carter:] Jimmy's basic problem is that he's super cautious. He looks before and after he leaps.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.

I've never been uncoachable. I've been tough to coach because I'm hypercompetitive and always get to the bottom of things.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.

The only thing I can expect from myself is to learn from each competition and improve.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing.