Motivational Quotes - Page 68

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

Accuracy builds credibility.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

After a storm comes a calm.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Sport is a preserver of health.