Greg Harden Quotes

When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent. MENG TZU (MENCIUS), fourth century BCE1

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF As you’re thinking about any of these potential changes in your life, the best way to completely lose your steam is to see your own circumstances and your own state of mind as something outside your control. If you really believe that, then you’ll never believe you can change anything! I’m telling you right now, your life belongs to you, and it is your responsibility to make the most of it. Nobody else can do this for you.

There we met Distance, a hardened ANC fighter with the looks and physique of an adventure movie-star. It was a quiet day and one of us mentioned Abdul. Distance looked at us and then said: "I am not sorry your friend Abdul was killed. It is good that one of you dies. Nothing personal, but now you feel what is happening to us every day.

A child born in hell,” the white-haired prisoner said. “A child forged by suffering. Hardened by pain.” He shook his head sadly at Bruce. “Not a child of privilege.

So beyond coachability, the second thing these high performers have in common is what I’m going to call a belief in the process of self-improvement.

Because if you practice, train, and rehearse believing in yourself, it will become second nature. If you practice, train, and rehearse giving 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, that will become second nature, too. But if you practice, train, and rehearse being negative, miserable, and depressed, well, that’s what you’ll be good at.