I write a motivational quote in the top of my fitness tracker every week:
Success:
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
– Abraham Lincoln
Action is the foundational key to all success.
-Pablo Picasso
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-Booker T. Washington
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
– Dale Carnegie
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.
– Denis Waitley
Some succeed because they are destined to; most succeed because they are determined to.
– Anatole France
Formula for success: Under-promise and over-deliver.
– Tom Peters
Others can stop you temporarily; only you can do it permanently.
-Don Ward
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo
A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
– General George Patton
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ‘sure thing’ boat never gets far from shore.
– Dale Carnegie
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you find it simply means to follow through.
– F. W. Nichol
Synergy:
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
-Henry Ford
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain
Change:
The formula for change is when the desire for change is greater than the resistance to change.
– Brad Sugar (Australian biz consultant) from Eat, Move & Be Healthy
All permanent and lasting change starts on the inside and works its way out.
– Lou Tice
Mighty things from a small beginning grow.
– John Dryden (1631-1700)
You’re a living magnet & you inevitably attract into your life, the people, circumstance, ideas & resources in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
– Brian Tracy The Luck Factor
Anybody can come up with new ideas. What’s in short supply are innovative people – persistent mavericks who believe so strongly in an idea, they will do whatever it takes to make it a working reality.
– Michael LeBoeuf
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
– Goethe
Goals:
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
– Thomas Edison
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-Diana Scharf Hunt
Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; can’ts into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don’t just think it – ink it!
– Dan Zadra
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
– Hannah More
Excellence:
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
-Abraham Lincoln
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
-Pat Riley
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
– Helen Keller
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future, but right now. Realize that nothing is too good.
– Eileen Caddy
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-Abraham Lincoln
More Good Quotes:
-“Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.” -Henry Haskins
– “Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness & courage & hope.” -General George Marshall
-“The only way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
– “All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move!” -Benjamin Franklin
– “Amateurs hope. Professionals make it happen.” -Garson Kanin
– “We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” -Maxwell Maltz
– “The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress.” -Arthur Miller
– “The best part of one’s life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed; but the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.” – Garson Kanin
– “There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.” – Business axiom
– “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw
– “Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.” – Paul Hawken
– FACTS – Every person has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong about his facts. – Eddie Terrazas
– “Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” – Admiral Hyman Rickover
– “Care enough for a result, and you will almost certainly attain it.” – William James
– “Choose to live, work and succeed in the most powerful nation on earth; Imagination.” – Dan Zadra
– “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing the attempt.” – Shakespeare
– “There are risks and costs to a program of action – but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy
– “If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.” – Confucious
– “The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping others.” – Roger Williams
– “The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.” – Barbara Pletcher
– “High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly, and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
– “When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown… Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen… There will be something solid to stand on OR you will be taught how to fly.” – Unknown
– “Good things come to those who wait…But only what’s left by those who HUSTLE!” – Abraham Lincoln
– “Give all the credit away.” – John Wooden
– “Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.” -Don Galer
– “It’s easy to have faith in yourself when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have is faith in yourself when you’re not a winner.” – Vince Lombardi
– “Those who stand for nothing may fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
– “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience which you must stop and look fear in the face…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Henry Haskins
-‘When your heart is on fire – sparks will fly from your mouth… It will be evident.’
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