Quotes by Gary Ryan Blair

“You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.”

“Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect todays actions to tomorrows results. Theres a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.”

“Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?”

“Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.”

“Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.”

“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

“People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. Ive got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. Theres no future in it.”

“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”

“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”

“When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the meaning of it all begin to fill with acts of kindness.”

“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

“Were really excited about the partnership,”

“Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.”

“Self-command is the main discipline.”

“Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.”

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

“If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.”

“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.