Life Turnaround Quotes

If you are a woman, if you're a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person od intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way or else you're worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think 'oh, I'm so fat, I'm so old, I'm so ugly', don't you know, that's not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn't turn around shit. When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

According to the Turnaround paper, which was written by a consultant named Brooke Stafford-Brizard, high-level noncognitive skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity are very difficult for a child to obtain without first developing a foundation of executive functions, a capacity for 
self-awareness, and relationship skills. And those skills, in turn, stand atop an infrastructure of qualities built in the first years of life, qualities like secure attachment, the ability to manage stress, and self-regulation.

Don’t worry about losing. Think about winning.” – Mike Krzyzewski, 5-Time National Champion Basketball Coach

the most important decision you make is deciding how you choose to see yourself, the next most important decision is deciding who you want to surround yourself

The fact is, confidence can and must be generated from within if you want to be successful.

You are the culmination of all your choices up to this point.

All changes — ​spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ​begin when there is a discontentment that says, “I refuse to accept this.

Complacency is one of the worst things that can happen to a person. If you don’t have that drive and enthusiasm to always get better, you’re gonna get beat by somebody who does.

Confidence doesn’t prevent life from throwing adversity at you. Nothing will prevent that. But confidence will help you overcome whatever adversity comes your way.

If you surround yourself with good and positive people, good and positive things will happen.

If you ever find yourself feeling down or lacking energy, it’s because you don’t have any goals that excite you. Find a goal you’re excited about and you will become an energetic person.

People who are insecure and loaded with self-doubt live in the past. They keep looking backwards. People who are confident are focused on the present and the future. They’re always looking forward.

You can choose to look backward or look forward. The choice is yours. The backward thinker will fall into insecurity and self-pity. The forward thinker will respond with confidence and a sense of empowerment.

Your circumstances may be black, but Scripture says that God is light. Trust in him, and he will give you a comeback. He will give you a fresh start. He will give you a change of heart and provide a powerful spiritual turnaround. He is with you in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, and I invite you to praise him and trust his purposes for your life.

The single most important choice you can make is what type of attitude you’re going to have,” Bud said. “Everything begins with the attitude you choose. Everything you do and every thought you think follows your attitude. Losing follows a losing attitude. Winning follows a winning attitude. It’s that simple. “If you want to turn things around and start winning, you have to first develop a winning attitude

God is the God of truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. The Scriptures are the truth. The gospel is the word of truth. Conversion is a turnaround triggered by truth. Discipleship is the way of life that is living in truth. Confession is a realignment with the truth. Spiritual growth is life formation through the power of the Spirit of truth. And the Last Judgment is the final vindication and restoration of truth for humanity and for the very cosmos itself.

Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son’s life was no longer characterized by the demand “give me” (v. 12) but now by the request “make me . . .” (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament’s teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord.

This, I have consistently experienced in Life – that no matter how grave the circumstances are, it is not over, to use a cricketing term, until the last ball is bowled! So, even if it seems like a dead-end, a no-go situation, celebrate being alive. It may be dark all around you, there may be no light visible at the far end, everyone, and everything, may appear to be going against you…but do not give up yet. The only evidence that things will turnaround is that you are still alive. And that is a huge, huge, blessing! For, if you still have the gift of this lifetime, then anything is possible! So, bow your head down in complete surrender, in eternal gratitude and give in to Life, just flow with it! This is how you last through a numbing crisis!

I’ve always been very Type-A, so a friend of mine got me into cycling when I was living in L.A. I lived right on the beach in Santa Monica, where there’s this great bike path in the sand that goes for, I think, 25 miles. I’d go onto the bike path, and I would [go] head down and push it—just red-faced huffing, all the way, pushing it as hard as I could. I would go all the way down to one end of the bike path and back, and then head home, and I’d set my little timer when doing this. . . . “I noticed it was always 43 minutes. That’s what it took me to go as fast as I could on that bike path. But I noticed that, over time, I was starting to feel less psyched about going out on the bike path. Because mentally, when I would think of it, it would feel like pain and hard work. . . . So, then I thought, ‘You know, it’s not cool for me to associate negative stuff with going on the bike ride. Why don’t I just chill? For once, I’m gonna go on the same bike ride, and I’m not going to be a complete snail, but I’ll go at half of my normal pace.’ I got on my bike, and it was just pleasant. “I went on the same bike ride, and I noticed that I was standing up, and I was looking around more. I looked into the ocean, and I saw there were these dolphins jumping in the ocean, and I went down to Marina del Rey, to my turnaround point, and I noticed in Marina del Rey, that there was a pelican that was flying above me. I looked up. I was like, ‘Hey, a pelican!’ and he shit in my mouth. “So, the point is: I had such a nice time. It was purely pleasant. There was no red face, there was no huffing. And when I got back to my usual stopping place, I looked at my watch, and it said 45 minutes. I thought, ‘How the hell could that have been 45 minutes, as opposed to my usual 43? There’s no way.’ But it was right: 45 minutes. That was a profound lesson that changed the way I’ve approached my life ever since. . . . “We could do the math, [but] whatever, 93-something-percent of my huffing and puffing, and all that red face and all that stress was only for an extra 2 minutes. It was basically for nothing. . . . [So,] for life, I think of all of this maximization—getting the maximum dollar out of everything, the maximum out of every second, the maximum out of every minute—you don’t need to stress about any of this stuff. Honestly, that’s been my approach ever since. I do things, but I stop before anything gets stressful. . . . “You notice this internal ‘Argh.’ That’s my cue. I treat that like physical pain. What am I doing? I need to stop doing that thing that hurts. What is that? And, it usually means that I’m just pushing too hard, or doing things that I don’t really want to be doing.

Her father’s sporadic benevolence kept Kate yearning for his love, hoping for a turnaround. This hope kept her bonded to him long after she reached adulthood. As part of that bonding, she believed she had to keep secret the truth of her father’s behavior. A “good” girl would never betray her family. The “family secret” is a further burden for abused children. By not talking about the abuse, the battered child cuts off any hope of emotional help. Here’s Kate: All my life I felt like I’ve been living a lie. It’s horrible not being able to talk freely about something that affected my life so strongly. How do you get over the pain of something if you can’t talk about it? Sure, I can talk about it in therapy, but I still can’t talk about it to the people who held all this power over me all those years. The only person I could ever talk about it with was the maid. I felt she was the only person in the world I could trust. Once, after my dad beat me, she said, “Honey, your dad’s very sick.” I never understood why he didn’t go to the hospital if he was so sick.

One day I was through Strachan’s Corner just hanging out, and they must have picked up Scrooge earlier for a pep talk, so they were now dropping him back home in one of their police vehicle. Supt. Strachan was in the back seat talking with him, while a male officer was driving. So I asked her, what were some of the things you used to say to Scrooge? I used to tell him it is not worth it, You are hurting people. You are only going to end up in jail for the rest of your life, or you are going to end up in the grave. I knew that he was listening to me. I would talk to him and encourage him. My other colleagues used to say I was soft on crime because of what I was doing, but I could be tuff. I am a mother of two sons; just ask my sons how tuff I can be. If I feel that I have done the best that I can, and cannot do no more than that is it. This was what I was telling those kids down there. I told them if you do not change, you are going to die. Sad to say, that is what happened to some of them eventually. The best came out of you and others in another way. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

When I hear and see young men like you and Troit, who have turned their lives around, it makes me feel good. We need to learn to love one another; there is just too much hate in this world. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are weeds that strangle confidence.” – Bruce Lee, Legendary Martial Artist

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, what you focus on tends to come about. That means when you focus on all the reasons why you should lose, you’re probably gonna lose.

Fellas, I believe the size of the obstacle equals the size of the opportunity. The bigger the obstacle in front of you, the bigger the opportunity you’ve been given.

Here’s the key: you can’t focus on two sides at the same time. You’re either focusing on the obstacle or the opportunity. You

One of the best ways to minimize the obstacle and maximize the opportunity is to focus on doing what needs to be done right now. Commit yourself fully to the task at hand and don’t look too far ahead.

This game is very important to all of us. That’s what makes it fun. It wouldn’t be any fun to play a game you didn’t care about. But don’t make it so important that you can’t enjoy it. Don’t make the obstacle bigger than the opportunity.

Football is just like life. When you try to achieve something important and difficult, you will face setbacks along the way. When that happens, regroup and choose to focus on the next play, the next game, and the next opportunity. That’s the great thing about life—regardless of what happened on the last hand, you always get a new hand

When you focus on the obstacle, it makes you feel insecure and fearful. When you focus on the opportunity, it makes you feel confident and excited. “Insecure people shrink away from the obstacle, but confident people step up to the opportunity

Make the most of these final days together. Forget about them, focus on us! Focus on what makes us great, not them!

One of the keys to having fun and enjoying the moment is to not even think about the results,” Bud said one afternoon. “Instead, think about getting the most out of this moment. Find the joy right here, right now. Embrace

Live life with a smile no matter what. It’s a powerful choice that you make.” – Dabo Swinney, 2-Time National Champion

Bud slapped me on the back. “I knew there were no guarantees, but it’s like I always told you boys: At some point, you just have to decide to be confident. When you do that, good things will happen.

They taught everything from a positive perspective. That is, they’d stress what they wanted us to do, not what they didn’t want us to do.

Focus on what you want to happen, not what you don’t,” Bud would say. “What you focus on most tends to come about.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” – Dean Smith, 2-Time National Champion Basketball Coach

Again, I wasn’t being completely honest. (It’s interesting how insecurity so easily leads to dishonesty.)

On second thought, maybe I don’t wish I could say that. Because that’s not how progress is made. Impactful change rarely happens overnight. It’s a journey. A challenging journey that never really ends.

At some point, you just have to decide you’re going to be confident. Then, as you do, you’re going to have more success.” – Mike Leach, 2-Time College Football National Coach of

I don’t care what the scoreboard says or what our record is. We could be winning by twenty or losing by twenty. We could be five-and-oh or oh-and-five. I don’t care because that’s all in the past. All I care about right now is seeing everybody on this team give everything they’ve got. You can’t let the last game or the last play beat you

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.” – Gregg Popovich, 5-Time NBA Champion Coach

Bud had told us, “Admitting when you are wrong is a sign of confidence. People with brittle egos can never admit when they’re wrong. Confident people are secure enough in themselves to be honest about their mistakes and regrets. They don’t hide, they don’t blame others, and they don’t try to cover it up. They own their mistakes and they’re willing to ask for forgiveness when necessary.

People who succeed at a high level are those who have a strong passion for what they’re doing. Just

Asking myself, “Why not me?” again and again built up my confidence as I navigated a highly-competitive career.

Confidence is completely ours to give to ourselves, and ours to take away when we feel low. If we’ve lost it, we simply must find it again.” – Joe Montana, 4-Time Super Bowl Champion Quarterback

He liked to joke around with us and get us laughing. Many times, he reminded us to enjoy playing football and being college

I want to see you smile. You work harder when you enjoy what you’re doing and what’s not to love about getting to play football today?

should also point out that while mistakes were handled differently, they were not tolerated. I heard Bud say on several occasions, “Victory favors the team that makes the fewest mistakes.” But he would always follow that up with, “Preparation and repetition will eliminate mistakes.

People with confident, optimistic outlooks tend to succeed. People who are pessimistic, who lack confidence, tend to fail.” – Dr. Bob Rotella, World-Renowned Sports Psychologist

A person will tend to perform up to (or down to) his or her self-image and the person with a confident, positive self-image will outperform the person with an insecure, negative self-image in pretty much every area of life. That is why confidence plays such a vital role in the type of life you live.

Happiness and peace of mind will always be fleeting if you’re wracked with self-doubt and insecurity.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali, 3-Time World Heavyweight Champion

He taught us that winning begins within. He taught us that winners see themselves differently. He taught us that how you see yourself determines your level of success or failure in every area of life. He taught us how to believe in ourselves. He taught us the importance of self-confidence. No matter how dire or difficult things have

He showed me how confidence can instantly ignite a turnaround in any difficult situation.

The feeling that anything is possible and you’ve got your whole life in front of you.

But then I remember the dark times. The bad path I was headed down. The self-doubt, the cynicism, and the humiliation I felt.

I think a coach has every right to be demanding—and should be demanding—but you’ve got no right to be demeaning to another person.” – R.C. Slocum, Hall of Fame College Football Coach

nodded and gulped simultaneously. I ran out to the huddle and called the first play. We broke the huddle and I walked to the line of scrimmage with shaky legs telling myself, I’m not ready for this. I’m not ready for this. Don’t screw up. Don’t screw up.

self-confidence is so important, why would we ever want to approach someone in a manner that might disrupt or shatter it?” – Pete Carroll, Winner of 2 National Titles and 1 Super Bowl

The interesting thing was that the more we feared making mistakes, the more we made them.

As I paint this unappealing picture of Coach Wade Wyatt, it’s fair to question why I signed with Arkansas A&M and agreed to play for a coach like him in the first place. Two reasons. One, because my high school girlfriend, Sherry, was going to the same college. And two, because it was the only Division 1 school that offered me a scholarship. There wasn’t much else to consider.

That was the key. But wanting to go to college and affording to go to college were two very different things.

When I come into this clubhouse, if I am dejected and I am depressed and I am tired and my players see me that way, what is the attitude and the atmosphere of the clubhouse going to be? If I walk in full of enthusiasm, full of self-confidence, and proud to be putting that uniform on, all of those things are also contagious. That’s the attitude this team will have.” – Tommy Lasorda, 2-Time World Series-Winning Manager

When you accept the fact that you are in your present condition, good or bad, because of the choices you have made, you will find yourself capable of changing your situation by making better choices.” – Lou Holtz, National Champion Football Coach

That’s because if you are where you are due to the choices you’ve made in the past, you can change where you’re going by the choices you make today. And that’s exciting.” He paused to

The first and most important choice you need to make is what type of attitude you’re going to have.

It all boils down to choices. We all have one life to live, so we need to look in the mirror and ask, ‘How do I want to be remembered?’” – Gary Carter, 11-Time MLB All-Star and Baseball Hall of Famer

A winning culture is built on confidence, love, caring about each other, and looking forward to going to work in the morning.” – Barry Switzer, Winner of 3 National Titles and 1 Super

It’s the psychological component of the game where teams separate themselves. It’s attitude that separates the great teams from everyone else.

Anyone can figure out what to do physically and mentally to accomplish an objective. But it’s your attitude that determines how well you do

It’s not complicated. The key ingredient to a winning attitude is self-confidence. Confident people tend to succeed and insecure people tend to fail. Simple as that.

to have self-confidence. Lots of self-confidence. You’ve got to believe you will find a way to achieve your goals.

When your mind believes something can be done, you will find a way to get it done.

The turnaround starts with confidence. I want you to believe in yourselves and I want you to have fun while you’re here! This time in your life goes by so fast and I want you to enjoy it.

I believe the size of the obstacle equals the size of the opportunity. The bigger the obstacle in front of you, the bigger the opportunity you’ve been given.

How you choose to view the world around you determines the type of world you experience

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the moment you decide that studying is more important than partying, that getting married and having a family is more important than rampant sex, that working a job you believe in is more important than money—your turnaround will reverberate out through your relationships, and many of them will blow up in your face.

your turnaround will reverberate out through your relationships, and many of them will blow up in your face. This too is normal and this too will be uncomfortable. These are necessary, though painful, side effects of choosing to place your fucks elsewhere, in a place far more important and more worthy of your energies. As you reassess your values, you will be met with internal and external resistance along the way. More than anything, you will feel uncertain; you will wonder if what you’re doing is wrong. But as we’ll see, this is a good thing.

According to this definition, innovation is a drastic process of change. Ideally, it occurs in a very short period of time, yielding a dramatic turnaround. Innovation is fast and big and flashy; it reaches for the largest result in the smallest amount of time.

Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed. ... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself.

Where America was founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Sharia was founded on death, slavery, and the pursuit of power.

It is not the experiences of your life that determine your outcome. It is the meaning you attach to each experience.

A physical-spiritual concussion, like a jolt of electricity to the heart. It was like something from a rom-com script so cliché-ridden that it gets sent to turnaround (the film industry term for a project that a film studio decides not to develop further).

For students to succeed, they'll need to become consummate lifelong learners. The term lifelong learner is certainly not a new one, and yet there is a lasting quality to it. Its conciseness, its implications, and its universal use all lend credence to its importance. It can define the difference between a life of mediocrity and one of success. One of the primary benefits of learning for life is acquiring the ability to grow and meet the changes and challenges that are ever present at any age. This type of lifelong learning begins now—not after graduation from high school or college, but now. When a student employs the four drivers just listed, he or she will enjoy present academic success as well as success later in life.

mood can change quickly, but an attitude changes only through awareness and a true desire to choose a different one. Attitudes influence and flavor a student's every thought and action. An attitude held on to tenaciously will have a significant impact on a student's life. In fact, one of the primary components of school burnout among students is a cynical attitude (Salmela-Aro & Tynkkynen, 2012, January31). Academics can be tough, but nurturing a negative attitude

The point being, everyone knows a celebratory redemption story, one where the person in question overcomes adversity and becomes the main character in an undeniably remarkable turnaround story. But there's nothing but ridicule for the ones who never turn things around. Like the socialite whose ex-husband was arrested on a money laundering charge and is now an outcast among her former upscale circle. Or the father who abandoned everything for his mistress and now lives an isolated existence in a run-down apartment with no mistress, ex-wife, or kids. Or the bank executive who embezzled money and lost it all only to wind up living under a forty-second street bridge with his close friend Jack Daniels. Or the beauty queen who fell victim to a botched facelift and now curses her existence behind two-inch thick, closed miniblinds. No one celebrates the fallen and discarded because no one wants to admit it could happen to them. But we're all just one misstep away from living an upside-down life while the rest of the world points out all the ways we deserve it.

Where’s your proof? Sometimes you’re convinced that your written statement is true and you believe that you can absolutely know that it’s true, but you haven’t looked at your “proof.” If you really want to know the truth, bring all your evidence into the open and put it to the test of inquiry. Here’s an example: Original statement: I am saddened by Paul because he doesn’t love me. The proof that Paul doesn’t love me: Sometimes he walks by me without speaking. When I enter the room, he doesn’t look up. He doesn’t acknowledge me. He continues to do what he is interested in. He doesn’t call me by name. I ask him to take out the trash, and he pretends not to hear me. I tell him what time dinner is, and sometimes he doesn’t show up. When we do talk, he seems distant, as though he has more important things to do. Investigate each of your “proof of truth” statements, using all four questions and the turnarounds, as in the following example. He sometimes walks by me without speaking. That proves that he doesn’t love me. Is it true? Can I absolutely know that it’s true? Is it possible that he is mentally absorbed in something else? Continue with all four questions and the turnarounds. When I enter the room, he doesn’t look up. That proves that he doesn’t love me. Is it true? Can I absolutely know that it means he doesn’t love me? Continue to test your proof with all four questions and the turnarounds. Test your whole list in this manner, and then return to your original statement: “I’m saddened by Paul because he doesn’t love me”—is it true?

The Turnarounds Finding turnarounds is a very powerful part of The Work. It’s the part where you take what you have written about others and see if it is as true or truer when it applies to you.

Inquiry: The Four Questions and the Turnarounds Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to question 3.) Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (Yes or no.) How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? Who or what would you be without the thought? And Turn the thought around. Then find examples of how each turnaround is true for you in this situation.

As you become fluid with the four questions and turnarounds, you’ll begin to discover for yourself that The Work is equally powerful when the one you’re judging is yourself. You’ll see that the “you” you judge is no more personal than everyone else turned out to be. The Work deals with concepts, not people.

Bud stopped walking and gave me a smile. “That’s a great question. I never talk about overconfidence because I’ve never seen a team lose because it was too confident. Too complacent? Yes. Too arrogant? Yes. Too lazy, unfocused, or undisciplined? Yes, yes, yes. But not too confident.

The confident man isn’t delusional; he knows he’s always got more to learn and room to improve. Remember, confidence requires hard work and preparation. That’s how you earn confidence. If you haven’t put in the work, you don’t deserve to be confident. And

Confidence is not, unfortunately, something you own forever once you’ve found it. It’s something you must constantly work on.” – Dr. Bob Rotella, World-Renowned Sports Psychologist

I’ll never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.” – Muhammad Ali, 3-Time World Heavyweight Champion

do the right thing, do everything to the best of my ability, and genuinely care about other people. If I

The more you work on being confident, the more natural it becomes.

What you feed your mind matters and what you focus on most tends to come about.