Motivation ~ Inspiration for us ALL ~

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Inspiration

“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.” ~Bill Phillips
“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.” ~Zig Ziglar
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.” ~Helen Keller
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
“Look within!… The secret is inside you.” ~Hui-neng
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” ~Dorothea Brande
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life.” ~Adele Brookman
“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
“Where you start is not as important as where you finish.” ~Zig Ziglar
“Act as if everything you do makes a difference. It does.” ~William James

 

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Judgment

“When we stop judging ourselves, we stop judging other people. When we start loving ourselves, we start loving other people.” ~Unknown
“Observe everything. Judge nothing.” ~David Colella
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function properly when open.” ~Unknown
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.” ~Gerry Spence
“Don’t let what others think decide who you are.” ~Dennis Rodman
“People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” ~Charles Kettering
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~Ambrose Redmoon

 

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Miscellaneous

“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.” ~Abraham Maslow
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~Plutarch
“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.” ~Joan Welsh
“I hated every minute of the training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” ~Muhammad Ali
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” ~Stephen Covey
“You have to have the bad days to appreciate the good ones.” ~Unknown
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~Alan Kay
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” ~Alva Edison
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ~Lena Horne
“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.” ~Dag Hammerskjvld
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” ~James Levin
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” ~Malcolm S. Forbes
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” ~Janis Joplin
“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.” ~Bob Proctor

 

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Motivation

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~Zig Ziglar
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” ~Stephen R. Covey
“Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up’s.” ~Peter Davies
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~Jim Rohn
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” ~Unknown

 

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Past (Let go of)

“The past is history. The future, a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it’s called the present.” ~Unknown
“Let go of what’s gone.” ~Jules
“None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.” ~Colin Powell
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” ~Ernest Holmes
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ~Leslie Poles Hartley
“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” ~Thomas S. Monson
“It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.” ~Nancy Thayer
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” ~Denis Waitley
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” ~Robert Frost
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.” ~Unknown
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” ~Vince Lombardi
“Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than the ones you did.” ~Mark Twain
“The future is always beginning now.” ~Mark Strand
“Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.” ~Anonymous
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” ~Jan Glidewell
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” ~Charles Kettering

 

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Perfectionism

“Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.” ~Maria Shriver
“You don’t have to be perfect in order to be successful.” ~Anonymous
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~Mark Victor Hansen
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world.” ~Joyce Meyer

 

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Planning

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” ~Napolean Bonaparte
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” ~H. Stanley Judd
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” ~Napoleon Hill
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.” ~Charlie Batch
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~Larry Elder
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~Colin Powell
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now” ~Alan Lakein
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” ~Napoleon Hill
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” ~Winston Churchill

 

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Present (“Now”)

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” ~Spanish Proverb
“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.” ~Barbara Sher
“The future is always beginning now.” ~Mark Strand
“It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.” ~Nancy Thayer
“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” ~Thomas S. Monson
“Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.” ~Anonymous

 

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Procrastination

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.” ~Denis Waitley
“Someday is not a day of the week.” ~Unknown
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” ~Spanish Proverb
“Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~Edward Young
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ~Zig Ziglar
“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.” ~Barbara Sher
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~Walt Disney
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~Mark Victor Hansen
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” ~Napolean Bonaparte

 

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Security

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” ~Brian Tracy
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” ~M. Scott Peck
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.” ~Unknown
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” ~Dr. Robert Anthony
“Quite often we change our jobs, friends and spouses instead of changing ourselves.” ~Akbarali H. Jetha
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” ~Jim Rohn
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~Leo Tolstoy
“It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, that we are held responsible.” ~Moliere
“The greatest lie you can make is to lie to yourself.” ~Matt Zotti
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be?” ~Maya Angelou
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~Dr. Denis Waitley
“If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” ~Eubie Blake
“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~Jim Rohn
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” ~Wayne Dyer Quotes
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” ~Buddha
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” ~Josiah Charles Stamp
“If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.” ~Richard Bach
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” ~Albert Ellis
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ~Erica Jong

 

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Strength

“The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.” ~Napolean Hill
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~Mark Victor Hansen

 

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Success

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” ~E. M. Gray
“To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, to learn you must first fail.” ~Wesley Woo
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” ~Oliver Goldsmith
“I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” ~Bill Cosby
“Success is never certain. Failure is never final.” ~Robert Schuller
“If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.” ~M.H. Alderson
“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.” ~John Wooden
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ~Robert J Collier
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” ~William James
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~Colin Powell
“Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.” ~Zig Ziglar
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.” ~F. W. Nichol
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~George S. Patton
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” ~Anthony Robbins
“In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.” ~Anonymous
“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” ~Brian Tracy
“Success is a staircase, not a doorway.” ~Dottie Walters
“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” ~Anthony D’Angelo
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” ~Sven Goran Eriksson
“You don’t have to be perfect in order to be successful.” ~Anonymous
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~Mark Victor Hansen
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~Vidal Sassoon
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” ~Sarah Brown
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~Margaret Thatcher
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” ~Sir Edmund Hillary
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ~Stephen R. Covey
“There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” ~Hindu proverb

 

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Support

“Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.” ~Frank C. Bucaro
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that. The really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~Mark Twain
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can’t do it all yourself. Don’t be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.” ~Oprah Winfrey
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” ~George Shinn

 

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Thoughts

“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.” ~Jameson Frank
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“What consumes your mind controls your life.” ~Creed
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.” ~Ben Franklin
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” ~Sir Edmund Hillary
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” ~Brian Tracy

 

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Willpower

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” ~James Gordon
“Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven’t dealt with the root cause.” ~Rick Warren
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~Johann von Goethe

 

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Worry

“To worry is like rocking in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but gets you nowhere.” ~Unknown
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” ~Unknown
“Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?” ~Max Lucado
“Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.” ~Pei
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do.” ~Unknown
“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” ~Mitzi Chandler
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” ~Winston Churchill
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” ~Montaigne