Selena Quintanilla

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

That if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be-on winning.

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

If it’s flipping burgers at Mcdonald’s, be the best burger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do, you have to master your craft.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.