Here are some of the wisest quotes I collected over the years that helped me when I lost motivation:
- “Your mind believes your thoughts. So start thinking about the way you want things to happen.”
- “When people speak about the virtues of “working your way up the corporate ladder” ask them — “why not own the ladder”?”
- “Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us 2 ears and 1 mouth”
- “Persuasion is the only real power we humans possess over others.”
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. “
- “When you show the world who you are, you become your own force of nature”
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming”
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune”
- “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake — you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
- “Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.” -Henry Ford
- “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves. “-E. Joseph
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” -Maya Angelou
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. -Mark Twain
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” -Steve Jobs
- “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
- “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
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan
- “Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” ~Zig Ziglar
- “In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” -Zig Ziglar
- “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.“ -Jim Rohn
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison
- “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.” -Gary Hamel
- “The first problem for us all, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -Charles Darwin
- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll
- “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” -Everett Dirksen
- “Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.” -Proverb
- “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery, Poet
- “The only muscle that you’ve got is in between your ears.” -Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
- “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.” -Oscar Wilde
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” -Norman Vincent Peale
- “The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.” -Confucius
- “Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.” — Anon
- “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently” -Warren Buffett
Stay Frosty =)
