Motivational Quotes And Quotations The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. Peter McWilliams he only thing that separates successful people from the ones who arent is the willingness to work very very hard. Helen Gurley Brown (1922 - ) American writer & editor of Cosmopolitan magazine There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor. Alan Cohen, Author Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordon You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. Norman Cousins, editor If you feel good, you will probably do your best even if your best does not justify you feeling good! John Watson Any mans life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day. Booker T. Washington I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. Steve Irwin Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author Do something every day that you dont want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain When we TAKE ACTION on what we learn, GREAT things happen. Mike Litman The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a persons life. William Wordsworth 1770-1850, Poet I can accept failure -- everyone fails at something. But I cant accept not trying. Michael Jordan, basketball player Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not ones better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act. Dr. Maxwell Maltz My greatest point is my persistence. I nevër give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. Björn Borg, Swedish Tennis Player It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually who are you NOT to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others wont feel unsure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our world; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed. Earl Nightingale Resistance and obstacles crumble under the relentless pressure of constant, determined effort. Tracy Brinkmann What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. Joe Namath Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world (that) the humblest man has not the faculties to surmount. Henry David Thoreau, philosopher The cause of the confusion prevailing in your mind that weakens your thoughts is the false belief that there is a power or powers outside you greater than the power within you. The Message of a Master by John McDonald A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. Harvey Mackay I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone , Arizona . It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. Harry Truman, 33rd US president All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president The only one who can tell you you cant is you. And you dont have to listen. Nike Advertisement PF - Persistent Focus - make a choice, make it work, never give up Joe Clayton I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. William Penn Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker, management consultant I dont believe in pessimism. If something doesnt come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think its going to rain, it will. Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director Remember, if you dont have a goal youre not playing football, youre just kicking a ball around the park. Geoff Thompson I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C. Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, Author of The Magic of Believing I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? General George S. Patton Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. Brian Tracy Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. Coach John Wooden If one advances confidenly in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird, basketball player By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Wallace D. Wattles Youre only given a little spark of madness. You mustnt lose it. Robin Williams, American Actor and Comedian If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool. The Buddha One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life. Jesse Owens You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You dont have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes. Jim Rohn Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino, Author When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up. J Peterman Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Richter, 1763-1825, German Novelist Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace Gary Lineker, England footballer Anticipate meeting obstacles, but also anticipate overcoming them Emmanuel Segui if you get moving, you get motivated. Even random movement will motivate you. Paul Myers For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that youll never walk alone. Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) British Actress The journey may be hard, exhausting, and frustrating ... but you can accomplish practically anything if you persevere. Paul Lawrence Screen Writer A minutes success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. Carl Jung, psychiatrist Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden When we are dealing with peoples dreams-their visions, we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We invoke the Great Creator when we invoke our own creativity, and that creative force has the power to alter lives, fulfill destinies, and answer our dreams. Julia Cameron, author It only takes one person to change your life - you. Ruth Casey People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope, 1903-2003, British-American Entertainer In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. Albert Clarke, photographer That which we persist in doing becomes easy to do; not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our power to do has increased. Ralph Waldo Emerson We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation Jim Rohn I am not going to ease up, let up, shut up or give up until Im taken up. As a matter of fact Im just getting warmed up. Zig Ziglar after 50 years as a motivational speaker . Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M. Bristol, Author Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle The best way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing. Walt Disney We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer, Author and Philosopher I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-Third U.S. President If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist The key to having everything we want lies in expanding our definition of whats possible and focusing on what we want. Thats it! Once we believe in the possibility of anything and focus in on exactly what we want to have, exactly what we want to do, then our minds can take us there. Mark Victor Hansen A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck, author The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true. James Allen Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson, writer and publisher A better life will come your way the second you get up and start walking toward it. Jason Gracia It is good to create good plans and to set goals. Working on them and getting results is much better. John Delavera The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Margaret Fontey, Author Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendall Holmes The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. Ayn Rand, author, philosopher Goals. Theres no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. Theres no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And theres no telling what will happen when you act upon them. Jim Rohn Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. Bob Proctor, author and speaker Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. Turkish Proverb When a fantasy turns you on, your obligated to God and nature to start doing it--right away. Stewart Brand Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. Malcolm Forbes 1919-1990, Author and Publisher Sometimes saying no to one task helps you have the energy you need for another task you really want to do! Christopher Westra Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein, scientist Feed your big dream with tiny daily successes. John Delavera I dont wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work. Pearl S. Buck, American Author When it comes to Good Ideas, theres no such thing as possible or impossible… theres just doing and not doing. And hey-- If you try and fail, well at least you tried, right? Wrong! If at first you fail, keep at it till you succeed! Mike Litman Our aspirations are our possibilities. Robert Browning, poet If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. Frank Perdue, Founder of Perdue Chicken Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer, doctor and missionary If youre not succeeding yet, take heart. As long as you keep trying, with persistence and determination, there will be a way for you to succeed. David Vallieres When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, Novelist The reason most people never reach their goals is that they dont define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Waitley, author and speaker Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so. Marcia Wieder Speaker and Author At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) American Actor No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. Channing Pollock Actor, Writer and Composer Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson Most people come and go without leaving their footprints on the Earth. Most die and never really live, afraid of taking chances, afraid of failing and afraid of succeeding and all the scrutiny that it would bring. Mike Brescia The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin, playwright I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Bo Bennett Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless its a result - something we can learn from. David Ryan When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu Your past doesnt determine your future. We can all learn from our mistakes… the only inexcusable mistake is packing it in and giving up. Mike Litman He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise - begin! Horace, poet, satirist Some people expect success and thats exactly what they get. Sadly, most people expect to fail and, likewise, thats exactly what they get. Im interested in working with people who EXPECT success. Ryan Deiss, Internet Entrepreneur Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action. Robert Ringer We gain internal freedom through external actions. Ram Dass Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill, author It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius, Philosopher The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous andthe storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri Frederic Amiel, writer Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is in constantly looking for the big hit, the home run, the magic answer that suddenly transforms their dreams into reality. The problem is that the big hit never comes without a great deal of little hits first. Success in most things comes not from some gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress. Andrew Wood Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted . Aldous Huxley, writer You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don’t push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way. Andy Grove, Intel chairman and co-founder Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca I realized early on - no ones going to pay me for doing nothing. Michelle Dewberry, Winner of the Apprentice UK 2006 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Missionary I praise loudly; I blame softly. Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova, ballerina If I’m selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there’s a very good chance they’ll perform well in big things. Edmund Hillary, explorer Youve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. Chris Evert, tennis champion Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman 1840-1924, Educator, Writer and Poet My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline . John Irving, writer Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success. Rev. Robert H Schuller Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. William James, psychologist and philosopher If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell. American Military leader and Statesman. Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. Viktor E. Frankl 1905-1997 Holocaust Survivor The key that unlocks energy is desire. Its also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, Radio Announcer and Author Whatever you choose to believe, will be the concept that runs your mind. Joe Vitale, author Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. Arland Gilbert,Writer Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Les Brown, speaker and author Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel. Mary Kay Ash, May Kay Cosmetics founder A mind thats most in tune with objective reality enjoys the highest level of mental health. Self-delusion is the disease of the middle-class thinker. The first step in the journey towards world-class results is giving up any addiction to kidding yourself about how good you are in any area of your life. Kid the world, if you so desire, but never kid yourself. Steve Siebold, author, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Abolitionist Old soldiers will tell you to sleep whenever you can...because you never know when youll be able to do it again. Roy Miller Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Bob Proctor Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindu proverb Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott, Author I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. William Penn My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem, Author and Journalist A great deal of my work is in honesty and truth - these are the cornerstones of motivation. Its much more than getting excited and running out the door with a big grin on your face. Its about letting the facts of life hit you and drive you toward a better life. Jason Gracia The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. Duguet Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die David Rosam Your muscles dont know what the date on your birth certificate is. They know only whether or not they have been exercised recently. Peter G. Hanson, medical doctor and author The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must. Charles Kettering, inventor Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! Goethe There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking. William James 1842-1910, Psychologist and Author Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - theres so little competition. Elbert Hubbard, writer and editor Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, Author of The Magic of Believing Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. Mark Twain If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy. H. Duane Black My brain is the key that sets me free. Harry Houdini, 1874-1926, Escapologist By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German Playwright, Poet I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest. Charles Dickens If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. Walt Disney 1901-1966, Artist and Film Producer The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it; that the world might be a happier place than it is; that there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we mis-create our own evils. We interfere with the optimism of nature; for whenever we get this vantage-ground of the past, or of a wiser mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves. The face of external nature teaches the same lesson. Nature will not have us fret and fume. Ralph Waldo Emerson Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill, 1854-1921, Mother of Winston Churchill Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself Anthony Trollope. We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. Persian proverb But try, you urge, the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) English Poet To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) American Actress It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot (1819 - 1880) English Novelist Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to jump at the Sun. We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston (1903 - 1960) American Writer There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968) American Politician If you cannot understand that there is something in a man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you wont see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. George Leigh Mallory (1886 - 1924) English Mountain Climber Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. David McKay (1873 - 1970) American Religious Leader Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities. John Richelsen There are no secrets to success. It is the result of hard work, preparation, and learning from failure.
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