Quotes ~

I find reading a few motivational quotes a day kicks the mood into staying focused and positive and allows me to take on the daily challenges of life, business and myself. Below are quite a few I have collected and want to share. If you have any favorites feel free to let me know and I will gladly add the to my collection. I update and add new quotes daily so make sure you come back and get a daily dose of inspiration !

MINDSET ~ a simple application that most people do NOT apply on a daily basis ~ WHY? who knows, its basic and not complicated ~ Diane Verlaque-Rosolen

“When the winds of change are blowing, some people run for cover and others build windmills”

“There are 3 kinds of people in the world:
Those that MAKE THINGS HAPPEN…
Those that WATCH Things Happen…
and Those that SAY “What Happened?”

…So Make it Happen NOW!!!

“Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities
like unleashed imagination.” – William Arthur Ward

POOR is passing over opportunities repeatedly; life is a game, play it; life is
a challenge, meet it; life is an opportunity, capture it!

“Listen to your heart and feel what it is telling you, there is a message in every heartbeat. It will guide you and help you but most important it will always love you” – James Verlaque

“The moment you stopped seeing is the moment it disappears, the moment you take it for granted is the moments you will never see” – James Verlaque

“By losing your goal, you have lost your way.” -Kahlil Gibran

“If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.”
Cher

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn – and change” -Carl Rogers

“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” -John Maxwell

“Life is too short to be anything but happy
so live your life to the fullest
and never let anybody get you down.
Look inside and find the happiness
and let it radiate out and shine on the world.”

“Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don’t like to
do. They like the results they get by doing what they don’t necessarily
enjoy. ” Earl Nightingale

It takes much less effort to be gracious and positive than it does to complain and be negative all day

We are what we do… Not what we did. Now if we continue doing what we used to do, we can’t be upset that we are still what we were, simply because we’re still doing what we did!

“Too aim is not enough, you must hit!”

It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do and what you get called by others… what really matters is who you believe you are and what you believe you can do.

“If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them”

“Your life is a product of moment to moment choices” – Darren Hardy

“You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it.”

“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” -Bernard Berenson

“Believe that problems do have answers.
Believe that they can be overcome.
Believe that they can be handled.
And finally, believe that you can solve them. ”

All of life is change.
Each change has some positive and some negative,
but always focus on the positive aspects of each change.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow.
If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

“Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”

“If you don’t know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?” -Basil S. Walsh

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”

“You know you have been beaten only when you give up”

“Purpose is what gives life a meaning.”

How much is your time? Mine is not for sale!

My purpose in life is to empower other people, create VALUE, make a difference to all people, and let them see what’s possible for them.

Why are you here in this world? What’s your purpose? To serve your boss? How about other people?

Are you living the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money?

“To know and not to do is not to know”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea” -Aristotle

“You have to do something you hate like you love it.” -Mike Tyson

“Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”

“Never confuse motion with action.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action”

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~ Marsha Norman

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” Pres. John Quincy Adams

“If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting
our aim too high and falling short, but in setting
our aim too low and achieving our mark.”
— Michelangelo

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right.
- Henry Ford

Opportunities are like sunrises – if you wait too long, you miss them.
~William Arthur Ward

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mohandes Gandhi

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou

“The ONLY reason you don’t have exactly what you want is the story you keep telling yourself about why you can’t have it or don’t have it already!” Tony Robbins

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” -Mario Andretti.

“It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy.” George Lorimer~1867-1937, Editor of Saturday Evening Post

If You want things in your life to change, your going to have to change the way you do things in your life – Unknown

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

“There are two great days in a person’s life … the day we are born, and the day we discover why.” -William Barclay

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw

“I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.” ~ Dolly Parton

“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.” – Joel Barker

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.Z Ziglar

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit” Conrad Hilton

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don’t try.
-Beverly Sills

Courage is a habit!

“Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.”

Realize that people who Take Action by Creating their Own Circumstances, are the people you see who are happy and living a stress-free life. Can you look at yourself honestly and know that you are being the best that you can be?

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is not a path and leave a trail.” – Walt Whitman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~ Albert Einstein

“The pain of regret is much sharper and lasts longer than the disappointment of defeat.”

“If leadership serves only the leader, it will fail. Ego satisfaction, financial gain, and status can all be valuable tools for a leader, but if they become the only motivations, they will eventually destroy a leader. Only when service for a common good is the primary purpose are you truly leading.” ~ Sheila Murray Bethel

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity.” Winston Churchill
Are you a pessimist or an optimist?

“The important thing is to be patient, to have the confidence and determination that you will achieve something meaningful in the future.” ~Daisaku Ikeda

Today is either a passionate adventure in life or it’s nothing. I chose the abundant life.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once,
whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.”

Only those that see the invisible can do the impossible ~

“Knowledge is not power. The SHARING of knowledge is power.” Douglas Merrill

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited”. Brian Tracy

Life does not happen on the sidelines……..get in the game and play full out !

Impossible is not a fact…Its an opinion. ~ M.Ali

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.” -Caroline Myss

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

“It’s not what abilities you have that makes a difference it’s what you do with these abilities that’s paramount.” Byron Pulsifer

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha

Lifes set-backs are nothing more than a set-up for a comeback!

“You cannot find peace until you have all the pieces”

“We are as happy as we make up our minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

“Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.” — Winston Churchill

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do”
~ Walter Bagehot

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” ~ Bill Cosby

“The best way to predict your future is to create it” ~ Peter Drucker

“I Don’t Know the Key to Success, but the Key to Failure is Trying to Please Everybody” ~Bill Cosby

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way 2 succeed is always 2 try 1 more time.” -Thomas Edison

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

*When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.* ~Franklin D. Roosevelt~

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison

“Love the life you live, live the life you love” -Bob Marley

“Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.” ~
Marshall Sylver

Give yourself permission to dream, but make sure you still do your work.

“To be yourself in a world that constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one ever said making your goals and dreams a reality was easy. There are no short-cuts however, you have it in you!

We were all created to make our own path in life, not be followers… it’s in you to achieve everything you put your mind to & make your dreams come true!

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Treat your business like a hobby and thats what it is ~
Treat your business like a business and thats what it becomes !

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up and knows that it will have to outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
And, every morning in Africa a lion wakes up and knows that it will have to outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
So, in Africa, it doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle. When that sun comes up, you had better be running.

Fear is to often a wasted emotion … rename it EXCITEMENT then channel it into making things happen!

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.~Anonymous

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ”Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”~Muhammad Ali

“Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see
it as an opportunity.” Warren Bennis (1925 –)American scholar, writer

One of the first fundamental steps in order to be successful is: LEARN how to be COMFORTABLE being UNCOMFORTABLE

I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed ~ Michael Jordan

Everyone has the ability if they just believe in themselves and take ACTION….you have to be the Change that you want to see!

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi

“You are twice as smart as you give yourself credit, and everyone else is not nearly as smart as you think they are.” My Dad.

“Life is a pitch, and then you buy”

“People don’t hear your words, they hear your music”

“One thing money can’t buy is poverty”

“Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the feeling you said it in has left you”

When you are grateful fear disappears and
abundance appears. ~ Tony Robbins

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes” ~ Buddha

Women have to harness their power, It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner. ~ Cher

True wealth exists ONLY when there is equal balance in mind, body and soul. Then and only then can we achieve perfect harmony in our lives, and understand the simplicity of obtaining all of the riches available to us.

Keep pressing forward today, even if you are crawling and grasping dirt with your fingertips. Always do your best. What you plant now will harvest later.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn

In order to achieve a position you never held, you have to do something you’ve never done…

“Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.” David J. Schwartz

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. – Mark Twain

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.” Napoleon Hill

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ~Les Brown~

Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base. ~Frederick Wilcox

Don’t look to the stars for the cause of your misfortunes, look to yourself to get better results.

Seize the opportunity as if it were your last!

I know of very few people who that live in their “comfort zone” who are comfortable. TC Bradley