Stedman Graham Quotes

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

How can I go out there and create value?

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.