Andres Brenes > Andres's Quotes

“You need to be making measurable progress in reasonable time. All life asks is that we make measurable progress in reasonable time. As parents, managers, and coworkers, we’ve got to be reasonable with time”
― Jim Rohn, Leading an Inspired Life

“If you’re around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you’ll spend all you make.”
― Jim Rohn, Leading an Inspired Life

“You can make up in numbers what you lack in skill.”
― Jim Rohn, Leading an Inspired Life

“...Evil always rushes in to fill the void created by the absence of good. The only thing that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, and unfortunately, that is what too many good people choose to do...”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter”
― Jim Rohn

“The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“Many of us never ever discover our greatness because we become sidetracked by a secondary activity.”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
― Jim Rohn

“Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop. That’s the precocious, prescient, urgent advice I managed to give myself, out of the blue, and somehow managed to take. Half a century later, I believe it’s the best advice—maybe the only advice—any of us should ever give.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog