Venus Williams

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance.

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Never, ever give up. There will be times in your life you’ll want to quit, you’ll want to go home, you’ll want to go home perhaps to that wonderful mother that’s sitting back there watching you and say, ‘Mom, I can’t do it. I can’t do it.’ Just never quit. Go back home and tell mom, dad, ‘I can do it, I can do it. I will do it.’ You’re going to be successful.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.