MOTIVATION
Ron’s Favorite Inspirational
Quotes
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1.
"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is
so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to,
your future will be unlimited." Brian Tracy
2. “Our
society is so caught up in winning; we forget that most of the great men and
women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often
repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick
in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.” Carlton Young
3. “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy,
everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment,
and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether
you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or
shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.” Barak Obama
4.
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your
words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors
positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive
because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your
values become your destiny.” Gandhi
5.
“As long as you know what it is you desire, then
by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively, with no ifs,
buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute you arise in the
morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the
day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people,
places, and events that will bring your desires to you.” Scott Reed
6.
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they
can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of
success." Norman
Vincent Peale
7.
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled
by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret
- curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is
confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly
and unquestionable." Walt Disney
8.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge
9.
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about
your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not
with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you
to do." Pope John XXIII
10.
“Always remember that you can achieve everything in life that your heart
desires as long as you have the courage to pursue all your dreams, goals, and
ambitions with all your heart and with all your soul. Because it is you and
only you that has the power to change your life! If you don't stand up and take
control of your destiny - Who Will?????” (Shared by Steven Poole)
11.
"When you get in 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
12. “The
hardest things you will ever do in your life often have the greatest value, if
you never challenge yourself how can you ever reach for your dreams.” Ron San Angelo
13.
“Keys to success... Research your idea, Plan for success, Expect success, &
just plain do it! It amazes me how many people skip the last step! Practice
being a "doer" and success will follow you every step of the way!” Josh S. Hinds
14.
"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of
advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part
of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye,
and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Ann Landers
15.
"I've gone through life believing in the strength and competence of
others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discover that my capacities are real.
It's like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat." Joan Mills
16.
“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not
really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted,
powerful motivation -it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our
dreams.” Les Brown
17.
“Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use
self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental
attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.” Napolean Hill
18.
"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a
winner" Zig Ziglar
19.
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we
cannot.” Eleanor
Roosevelt
20.
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination ...
they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in
here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily
building-steadily building." Robert Collier
21.
"Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always
thinking about their successes." Brian Tracy
22.
“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours,
weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious
performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
T. Alan Armstrong
23.
“The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you’re
wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows
through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for
you.” Derek Jeter
24.
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselfs miserable, or happy and
strong. The amount of work is the same." Francesca
Reigler
25. “If
you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming
impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” Dale Carnegie
26.
"I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging.
There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the
antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in
your competence. Be sure ...that your priorities are in order so that you can
proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the
place of persistence." Walter
Annenberg
27. "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
28. "Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive
attitude who has his goals clearly in sight." Dennis Waitley
29. “It takes a lot of
courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But
there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more
security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in
change there is power.” Alan
Cohen
30. “Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a
mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day
obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing
our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own
unique potential.” John Amatt
31. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
32.
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing
that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new
page" Mark Houlahan
33.
“The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of
simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget
what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement.
We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life
continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power
to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.” Robert Stuberg.
34.
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to;
all they need is one reason why they can."
Willis Whitney
35. “Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few
things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in
the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless
treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you
cannot get it back.” Anon.
36. “Realize that
true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace
and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no
happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile.
Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few
drops on yourself.” Og Mandino
37.
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off of
your goal.” Henry Ford
38. “What the vast majority of American children needs is to
stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being
catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but
what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful
human beings.” Ann Landers
39.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot
40.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself." William
Faulkner
41. "Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." St. Francis of
42.
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life
in your years" Abraham Lincoln
43.
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to
go to bed with satisfaction." George Horace Lorimer
44.
"The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong
- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper
perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other
things fall into place." Roger Birkman
45.
“(You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, �I
have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You
must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor
Roosevelt
46.
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a
worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at
least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore
Roosevelt
47. “Lots of people limit their possibilities
by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use.
I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep
believing and keep on keeping on.” Norman Vincent Peale
48.
There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to
dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine
is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you
want most is now. Unknown
49.
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we
call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." Mary Pickford
50.
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for
the feeling that you cherished them.” Richard L.
Evans
51.
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We
have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a
snowflake..." Marie Beyon
Ray
52. “There is only one person who could ever make you happy,
and that person is you.” David Burns
53.
"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours." Dr. Robert Anthony
54.
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge
us by what we have already done." Henry
55.
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you
plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
56.
"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first,
hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense." Thomas Edison
57.
As long as you believe in yourself, you'll never have to look for outside
acceptance"
Mark Smith
58.
"Keep away from small 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
59.
“The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your
personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself,
learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right
attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.” Wilfred Peterson
60.
“If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost” Zig Ziglar
61.
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome
danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that
life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a
sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." Dorothy Thompson
62.
"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become
and start being the man you want to be."
Bruce Springsteen
63.
“Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges, remember that
you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar
across the bluest sky, or even sail across the roughest waters. It is only
destined by your attitude where you will end up in life. The most important
thing is don't let yourself get lost in the crowd.” Angela Duvall
64. “Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision
or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your
pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly
terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your
mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take
yourself too seriously.” Og Mandino
65.
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is
definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire
to possess it." Napoleon Hill
66.
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in
the dark to our success." Henry David Thoreau
67.
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.
That's real glory. That's the essence of it." Vince Lombardi
68.
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your
arm. As you grow older you will discover
that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping
others.” Audrey
Hepburn
69.
“Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.”
William W. Purkey
70.
“Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the
price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road
will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by
outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect
or bury the soul. People speak of finding one’s niche in the world. Society, as
we have seen, is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it
likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”
71.
“As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of
themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage
their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency
and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves
into the web of relationships that is called community?” Dawna Markova
72.
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule,
equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole
distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will
always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know
it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in
solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of
the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo
Emerson
73.
"Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my
goals, is all mine" and "Everything you are against weakens you.
Everything you are for empowers you". Wayne Dyer
74.
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." Booker T. Washington
75.
“At the end of life’s long journey it will not matter what you have, but
instead who you were as a person.” Ron
76.
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by
doing what you know is wrong." William J. H. Boetcker
77.
"Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double
talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests
at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way
possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives." Norman Vincent Peale
78.
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence." Helen Keller
79.
“It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to
check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money
can't buy.” George Horace Lorimer
80.
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what
you're going to do now and do it." William
Durant
81.
“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure
out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere
appreciation. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your
praise," and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat
them over a lifetime -- repeat them years after you have forgotten them.” Dale Carnegie
82.
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who
would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" Stephen Levine
83.
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C. S. Lewis
84.
"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you
remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made
an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of
importance." Dale Carnegie
85. "To laugh often and much, to
win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children....to know
that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeded!" Ralph
Waldo Emerson
86. “Don't spend your precious time
asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time
wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that
there is an answer.” Leo
F. Buscaglia
87. “One of the most beautiful gifts in
the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that
person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on
your own.” John
O'Donohue
88. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or
the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a
life around."
Leo F. Buscaglia
89. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of
choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Jeremy Kitson
90. “The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your
nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the
path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's
plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are
the sweetest things in life.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH
enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH
enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess
your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is
accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to
move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the
things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
92. “We must nurture our dreams like we
would a child. They are God-given and just as precious. Without ambition how
would a child learn to ride a bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny
the spirit of God when we as adults settle for less than our dreams!” Conway Stone
93. “'I've learned that people will
forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel.” Maya
Angelou
94. "At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes
of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod
you." Jim Rohn
95. "You can make more friends in two
months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two
years by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie
96. “The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and
loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the
world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or
a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to
express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.” Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
97. “The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of
another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty
and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two
human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or
by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most
wonderful of all things in life.” Sir Hugh Walpole
98. If you
believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much
of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
The thing is to get the work done.” Dale
Carnegie
99. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you
can do." John Wooden
100. "Go confidently in the direction of
your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David
Thoreau
101."Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither
victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
102.
“One resolution I have made, and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the
little things.” John Burroughs
103.
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” Henry Ford
104.
“I ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders.” Jewish Proverb
105.
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106.
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them
yourself.” Andy Warhol
107.
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed, and
redeemed; never throw out anyone.” Audrey Hepburn
108.
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” Mark Twain
109.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
110.
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
111.
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of
knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in
return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” Leo Buscaglia
112.
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that
when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” White Elk
113.
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when
you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you had everything to do, and you’ve
done it.” Margaret Thatcher
114.
“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying
to impress other birds and horses.” Dale Carnegie
115.
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and
to let him know that you trust him.” Booker T. Washington
116.
“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
117.“The
best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes
to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” Anne Frank
118.“True friendship
consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.” Ben Jonson
119. “Never cut down a tree in wintertime. Never make a
negative decision in low time. Never make your most important decisions when
you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring
will come.” Robert H.
Shuller
120.
“If a man could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they
would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they
failed to obtain.” Andre Maurois
121.
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not
to worry about the future, or to anticipate troubles, but to live in the
present moment wisely and earnestly.” Budda
122.
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always look like a winner. Even if you are
behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge
that results in victory,” Arthur Ashe
123.
“Keep doing good deeds long enough and you’ll probably turn out a good man or
woman in spite of yourself.” Louis Achincloss
124.
“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
125.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder…he needs the
companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him
the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” Rachel Carson
126.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie
127.
“The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing is to be
what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.” Leo Busaglia
128.
“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I
realized I was somebody.”
Lily Tomlin
129.“Holding
on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at
someone else; you are the one who gets
burned.” Budda
130.
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful,
inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think it.” Thomas Carlyle
131.
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the
next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore
Roosevelt
132.
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from
now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard
133.
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream
of things that never were.” John F. Kennedy
134.
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by
those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Roberts Rinehart
135.
“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your
strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends
on me’.” Andre Gide
136.
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of
trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.”
Helen
Keller
137.
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim. No meaning. And yet I’m happy. I
can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” Charles Schulz
138.
“The secret of work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do
something well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl S. Buck