Inspirational thoughts to motivate yourself
- Failure is like driving down a dead end road and turning
back to find a better route.
- Winners don't have time to place blame, they're too busy
getting ready for the next challenge.
- Success is the greatest motivator.
- It's better to try something great and fail, than to do
nothing and succeed at it.
- As long as you know where you are headed, there is no need
to justify it to others.
- Everything ever accomplished in history was born of human
thought and ingenuity.
- Don't let who you are stunt who you want to be.
- Conceive and believe to achieve.
- Better to consider your route while you are on solid ground
than to panic in the quicksand.
- Sometimes how far you go is not as important as the direction
you take.
- Your goals must be clear but your guidelines must be flexible.
- Later never comes, there is only now.
- You can never live up to everyone's expectations, but you can
live up to your own.
- Many people are talented yet few distinguish themselves. The
ability to rise above lies more in effort than in talent.
- Everyone is good at something.
- Intentions don't count, actions do.
- There are many tasks in life that are unavoidable, whether
you do them cheerfully or grudgingly is up to you.
- It is more fearful not to have a goal than not to reach a
goal.
- What you are is more important than what you have been and
what you aim to be is best of all.
- You cannot strike higher than you aim.
- Neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond
the limits of our ability.
- If you don't know where you want to go, no amount of planning
will get you there.
- Being able to do only a little is not an excuse for doing
nothing at all.
- The ultimate motivator is defeat. When you hit bottom, you
have nowhere to go but up.
- The motivation to succeed is much more valuable than
knowledge or training. Motivation drives you to seek knowledge,
but knowledge does not intrinsically create motivation.
- The future is where you will spend the rest of your life.
- Never risking the chance to make a mistake is the biggest
mistake you can make.
- You are more likely to be motivated by the avoidance of
adversity than by the attainment of peace.
- The joy of the journey is not so much in reaching the harbor
as in anticipating what lies ahead.
- The only thing stopping you is yourself.
- To move your mind, set your body in motion.
- To move your body, first move your mind.
- There is not guarantee that tomorrow will come. Do it today.
- When your perception changes, the cloudy day turns sunny.
- Worry changes nothing but your mind.
- Sages can point the way, but ultimately we must walk the
road alone.
- Nothing has control over your destiny but you.
- Appreciate what you have.
- Nothing is certain, so don't bet on it.
- Impossible only mean it will take a bit longer than planned.
- The first step determines the direction of the journey.
- Uninspiring goals produce uninspiring results.
- There is no obstacle so great that it cannot be met head on
or avoided.
- Nothing makes life more mundane than habit.
- Experience, whether good or bad, is an asset.
- The rabbit outruns the fox because the fox is running for
his dinner and the rabbit is running for his life.
- No matter how bad your situation is, you always have the
freedom to discover something good about yourself.
- You have to maximize what you have to get what you want.
- Doing leads to achieving. Being leads to becoming.
- Problems are teachers not obstacles.
- Potential - use it or lose it!
- What goes in strongly resembles what comes out.
- Where you start is not important, where you are going is.
- Adversity is the wrapping paper of opportunity.
- How you feel about your goals is more important than how
others feel about them.
- What you do with your problem is more important than what
your problem does with you.
- Allow yourself to dream, it just may come true.
- An obstacle is what you see when you stopping focusing on
your goal.
- The secret to good aim is having a big target.
- When the tide comes in, it lifts all things with it.
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