Alison Price

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Firstly, make sure that you take regular ‘time out’ to look at the bigger picture, and to work out what you want from life. You get so caught up in the rat race of life that it usually takes a crisis to make you step back and re-visit what your priorities are.

the effort we put in equals the reward that we expect to get as a result of our effort.

if you want to achieve something really difficult, in order to be able to keep putting in sustained effort and to succeed, you have to really want to achieve your goal.

The more you want to achieve the goal and the more you can enjoy the achieving of it, the better motivated you will be to put the effort into it.

What separates a talented individual from a successful one is a lot of hard work.

So, if your goal just feels like too much hard work and you are getting despondent, ask yourself whether there is any way that you can reduce the amount of perceived effort that you need to put in, by changing how you try to achieve the goal, so that you enjoy the process of working towards it more.

Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give to it ourselves.

the more they want their goal, the more effort they are prepared to put in and the more successful they are likely to be.

If our fears become an obstacle to us we can unlearn them as effectively as we adopted them.