The best Quotes by Bo Bennett

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.

The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

The only failure is not to try.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

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

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

My parents were my worst audience.

I think a night like tonight shows a lot of young girls and young boys that if you can shoot you can shoot. It doesn't matter if you're a girl or a boy, I think it just matters the heart that you have and wanting to be the best that you can be.

I'm looking to do everything that I possibly can to get better in every aspect, whether that's scoring, defending, rebounding, passing, i'm really just excited to be playing against professionals and learning from them and just seeing where that takes me.

Sky is the limit for her and what she can do on the court, in terms of her impact in the game but also the court as well... It's been fun to watch her journey.

I grew up watching Kobe Bryant game after game, ring after ring, living his greatness without apology.